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Solar panels can't kill. You could have a very large field of panels, 0 deaths.
by aioprisan 7y ago
Solar panels can't kill. You could have a very large field of panels, 0 deaths.
- djcapelis 7y agoPeople falling off roofs while installing or maintaining panels is the biggest contributor to deaths from solar electricity. Per TwH, current solar is far from the safest: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-energy-sources.html?amp https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all...
- fooster 7y agoWhat about the carbon footprint from the manufacturing and materials for the solar panels?
- pfdietz 7y agoIt's weird you think that use of fossil fuels is inherent in the production of solar panels, and cannot be substituted for.
- jacquesm 7y agoRooftop solar is a small fraction of solar installed worldwide, those stats are incomplete without also listing solar farms.
- djcapelis 7y agoYeah, agreed entirely. It's not the best document. But "solar panels never killed anyone" just turns out to be not true is all. It turns out everything has risks. I find post-construction rooftop solar to be a perfectly acceptable risk, personally. Grid-scale solar not on rooftops is even better.
- ZeroGravitas 7y agoThat chart strangely leaves off grid scale solar? I wonder what explains that mysterious oversight? And of course if you fit the panels at the same time as building the house you don't get any additional deaths and even rooftop solar sails to the top of the list. I'm sure we'll find another obscure stat to focus on though (even if we have to leave off anything that beats nuclear). Dont let the facts get in the way of a good story.