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Where are you getting that hydro power is safer? Hydropower accidents have killed far more people than nuclear accidents both in real numbers and normalized fo
by sarchertech 3y ago
Where are you getting that hydro power is safer?
Hydropower accidents have killed far more people than nuclear accidents both in real numbers and normalized for energy produced. The ecological downsides to hydro are also hard to overstate.
- akoboldfrying 3y agoThis is interesting and news to me -- got any links?
- sarchertech 3y agohttps://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-energy https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-energy Just this year there was a dam failure in Libya that killed between 5k-20k people. And a series of dam failures on a reservoir in China in 1975 likely killed somewhere north of 200k, destroyed more than 5 million homes, and displaced more than 10 million people.
- mikeyouse 3y agoEh.. dam failures are indeed catastrophic but the Derna dams in Libya were just clay embankments that had nothing to do with hydropower.
- sarchertech 3y agoEarth filled embankment dams are used around the world for hydropower. The primary danger from hydropower is flooding due to dam failure, so it stands to reason you’d look at all dam failures when quantifying the risk.
- lazide 3y agoAs one of many examples: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam] With bonus 'recently almost failed due to construction defects and would have killed thousands of Californians if it did' history.
- terribleperson 3y agoDam collapses are rare, but when they happen they can kill thousands. Go through the wikipedia list article "list of hydroelectric power station failures" and look for the ones that are actual dam collapses.
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