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		trothamel on May 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Death rates from energy production per TWh Rooftop Solar is 0.44 deaths/TWh, wind is 0.15 deaths/TWh, Hydro is 1.4 or 0.1, depending on if you count the biggest accident or not. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all... I don't think that would count natural gas emissions for backing renewables.

pcl on May 14, 2019 | [–]

The referenced hydro accident is the Banqiao Dam failure, which Wikipedia says resulted in between 171,000 and 230,000 deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

Symmetry on May 14, 2019 | [–]

I'd expect deaths from big solar farms to be quite a bit lower than that, possibly lower than nuclear even.

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