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Hydro electricity is also one of the most dangerous forms of energy production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure https://en.wikipedia.org
by Flere-Imsaho 6mo ago
Hydro electricity is also one of the most dangerous forms of energy production:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
(This is the worst disaster, but could put Chernobyl to shame?)
Full list here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_station_failures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st...
- iso1631 6mo agoWell most dangerous apart from coal, oil, gas, biomass? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p... And that's before you bring into the deaths due to climate change
- Flere-Imsaho 6mo agoI should have pre-fixed it with "out of renewable energy".
- lxgr 6mo agoSure, if you consider only local dangers and don't care at all about regional or global externalities.
- iso1631 6mo agoYes, there are no global externalities from coal, oil and gas...