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Solar and wind will also increase death count.

• tmtvl 4y ago
  It could very well increase the rate of casualties (with people falling off roofs when installing solar, for example) as well as fatality rate... though I'm not sure if that takes into account casualty/fatality rates for uranium mining, which is something I'm too unfamiliar with to make any quantitative staatements.
• Vecr 4y ago
  I'm not sure why this is downvoted, it's actually correct. Solar panels are quite often put on roofs of buildings, and falling off buildings causes deaths. Wind turbines are about a dangerous as you think they would be, and especially offshore ones can get iffy. Solar and wind are not really any worse overall than communication towers, etc, but they are still worse than nuclear, as nuclear requires many fewer installations.
• harg 4y ago
  Perhaps, but by an amount that is negligible when compared with fossil fuels: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
  • nephanth 4y ago
    But not when compared to nuclear power (same source)