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crimeo t1_j621r55 wrote

Reply to comment by fortnitefunnies3 in Energy consumption in the US from 1776-2014 by MCgamingMC

Literally more people per megawatt have died from even SOLAR from things like falling off their roof installing panels than from all non military nuclear damage.

For coal, its orders of magnitude worse

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tinainthebar t1_j62y5fh wrote

That's an interesting claim, certainly believable if you look at direct deaths (which globally is probably under 100 - almost entirely from Chernobyl, especially if you count Kyshtym as military).

I'd love to see the source

Estimating, and attributing things like cancer correctly (reduction in life span and life quality) from things like construction and dismantling, uranium mining, etc is trickier.

On the other hand so is the mining for the metals needed for solar, and the construction risk per kWh I would guess are orders of magnitude higher for solar (especially rooftop solar)

I'm sure both are dwarfed by the impact from oil, gas and coal though.

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crimeo t1_j64gw0c wrote

I figured it all out on reddit but it seems to be > the max 1,000 comments ago :(

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