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Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources by iujyhgtfhj on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @03:21PM (#2333463)
That's including 0.01% lifetime extra cancer risk * 100M people

If you are going to do that then a single cigarette ad on a formula 1 car kills more people than Hiroshima.

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Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources by bioh42_2 on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @04:35PM (#2333773)
If you are going to do that then a single cigarette ad on a formula 1 car kills more people than Hiroshima.

Maybe not a single ad, but certainly cigarettes do, and it is a valid way to count.

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Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources by jshen on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @04:12PM (#2333676)
then how are you counting?
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