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Agreed, the Sun is a massive power we also still don't fully understand, is mostly safe and has all the energy humans will ever need (IMO); we just need to stri
by jebblue 11y ago
Agreed, the Sun is a massive power we also still don't fully understand, is mostly safe and has all the energy humans will ever need (IMO); we just need to strive at understanding it and how to harness it better.
- saalweachter 11y agoThe Sun, safe? 3000 people die each year from non-melanoma skin cancers. That is way more people than nuclear kills. It's damn near competitive with coal.
- serf 11y agothat's true, but we can't choose to turn the sun off.
- pvaldes 11y agoYou are doing the wrong maths here. The real sum is: About seven billion of people living because there is a sun, minus those 3000 that died because sun related problems. The sun is pretty safe to us, yes. No comparison possible.
- vidarh 11y ago> is mostly safe It isn't. Any power generation method that requires human staff will have deaths due to installation and operations accidents. Solar is right up there in terms of number of deaths because installation is labour intensive compared to the energy output vs. nuclear. Maybe that would change if we favoured larger plants over rooftop installations, but at the moment if we replaced all nuclear with solar, the number of deaths would increase significantly.