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Re:Chasing utopian energy: How I wasted 20 years of my life by anonporridge on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:04PM (#31838711)
Nuclear is still the safest, even including Chernobyl and Fukishima. An equivalent number of people die from solar and wind, independently.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

This is a huge problem for humanity to solve. We're more afraid of acute horrors that are statistically insignificant than we are of diffuse, but statistically horrifying dangers.

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Re:Chasing utopian energy: How I wasted 20 years of my life by RobertRoberts on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:08AM (#31848543)
Would you rather live near a nuclear accident or a solar farm/wind turbine accident?

A simple consideration shows nuclear accidents are above and beyond the worst humans have ever experienced. There is no comparison, not even a close second.

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Re:Chasing utopian energy: How I wasted 20 years of my life by michaelbarton on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:09PM (#31839669)
Completely agree. There’s a very digestible video on why this is true as well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EhAemz1v7dQ

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