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Counter example: PG&E. More expensive than smaller, greener alternatives. And 85 people killed just last year alone is the safety record.
by labster 8y ago
Counter example: PG&E. More expensive than smaller, greener alternatives. And 85 people killed just last year alone is the safety record.
- vkou 8y agoPG&E provides ~100 TWh of electricity/per year. Rooftop solar kills ~1 person per 2 TWh of produced energy. Mostly from people falling off roofs. If you were to look at the big picture, and not one outlier year - and look at the entire past decade, PG&E will probably have a better safety record. Also, if you want to do fair accounting, you can't solely blame PG&E for California wildfires. The entire state is a powder keg - and they just happened to be the last people who touched it. It would have burned sooner, or later. If your horse bolts from a barn, because there is no barndoor, do you blame the last person who went into the barn? Sure. Are they the sole point of blame? No. Especially if your barn has a history of horses bolting from it.