Re:Death rates from energy production per TWh
by leereeves on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:57AM
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Roofing is a dangerous profession, so rooftop solar is probably much more dangerous than other solar.
Re:Death rates from energy production per TWh
by roenxi on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @11:05AM
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You need more solar panels to get the same amount of energy. So since all the practical risk factors in nuclear apply to solar, and solar requires more activity, we'd expect solar to have more deaths per energy unit.
That said, neither nuclear or solar really kills anyone per TWh, so solar might score better by statistical fluke since the variances are so low.
I personally suspect that we don't count sunburn -> skin cancer deaths from solar. If we did, the radiation risks would ironically be higher for it than for nuclear power. Still basically 0 though.
Re:Death rates from energy production per TWh
by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:24PM
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If you add the solar at the time of building the roof you'd probably reduce this dramatically, as the house would probably be shrouded in scaffolding.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities