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Mortality rate in deaths per thousand terawatt hour[1]: - Brown coal: 32.72 - Coal: 24.62 - Oil: 18.43 - Biomass: 4.63 - Natural
by rekoil 3y ago
Mortality rate in deaths per thousand terawatt hour[1]:
- Brown coal: 32.72
- Coal: 24.62
- Oil: 18.43
- Biomass: 4.63
- Natural gas: 2.82
- Hydro: 1.30
- Wind: 0.04
- Nuclear: 0.03
- Solar: 0.02
Again, these are adjusted per 1000TWh, and includes nuclear catastrophes like Chernobyl and Fukushima
1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldwide-by-energy-source/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
- hef19898 3y agoNominally it includes Chernobyl. Caveat, noby, not in the USSR, the successor states nor the West ever really counted the Chernobyl victims, hence the official.number of what, 30-ish victims.
- natmaka 3y agoThe hydro stats are mainly due to the Banqiao case, which is a fluke: in similar conditions anything would go boom with way less latency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521090
- stjohnswarts 3y agodo you know if the solar ratio includes falling off roofs?