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Worse case accident for solar: Ow. I dropped the solar panel on my foot. For nuclear: Oops, we destroyed $270B of real estate.
by marze 13y ago
Worse case accident for solar:
Ow. I dropped the solar panel on my foot.
For nuclear:
Oops, we destroyed $270B of real estate.
- SuperChihuahua 13y agoCan solar panels survive an earthquake?
- marze 13y agoProbably at least as well as the Fukushima reactors did.
- meepmorp 13y agoTo be fair, the reactors survived the earthquake just fine, as well as the tsunami afterward. The problem is that the diesel generators that were supposed to provide backup power to the cooling systems got swamped, basically making meltdown inevitable with the design of the reactor. Edit:extraneous words removed
- cobrausn 13y agoActual worst case for solar: Oops, we spent $270B on solar panels that can't provide enough power.