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Solar risks are often dismissed, more probable, but still much less nasty. Typical solar cells are made of glass/ceramics so they don't actually burn and the c
by labawi 7y ago
Solar risks are often dismissed, more probable, but still much less nasty.
Typical solar cells are made of glass/ceramics so they don't actually burn and the cleanup should actually be manageable.
- AnthonyMouse 7y agoAh, so you're telling me that your proposed new power plants can't meltdown. Well that's great to hear, but you know it hasn't been deployed at large scale for very long, so we don't actually have a good actuarial model of the true risk it poses. Doesn't that mean we should prohibit operating it at scale until we have some better data on the risks of operating it at scale? Or at least require you to carry the insurance in the meantime, say for six to twelve decades? Isolated demands for rigor can make anything too expensive to be competitive.
- pfdietz 7y agoThe risk that was being discussed in reference to Ontario was not the risk of meltdown, it was the risk the plant would blow way past the promised cost. On that metric, we know renewables are far less risky. They typically come in within 10% of the bid.