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Re:Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity fr... by ViewTrick1002 on Monday April 13, 2026 @03:23AM (#47748822)
On a whole hydro has saved lives due to managing rivers which previously caused devastating floods.

The reason a ton of dams exists is not to make power, it is manage the river. Making power is a secondary concern.

But when we’re done with climate change we should of course restore as many rivers as possible due to the ecosystem damage they cause.

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Re:Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity fr... by mpweiher on Monday April 13, 2026 @08:47AM (#47751214)
On the whole, nuclear power has saved many more lives, over 1.8 million up to 2011.

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/pubs/abs/kh05000e.html

And the worst power-production disaster in history so far was neither Fukushima nor Chernobyl, but the 1975 Banqiao Dam failure. And it's not even close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

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