• jonesy@aussie.zone
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    19 minutes ago

    Where do these values come from because all I find when searching for 140,000 renewable-related deaths are references to wildlife deaths, and if this is the case it’s pretty disingenuous to compare against nuclear accident deaths of humans.

    This article has a more sensible comparison that ties deaths to the amount of power generated:

    Energy Source Mortality Rate (deaths/trillionkWhr)

    Coal – global average 100,000 (41% global electricity)

    Coal – China 170,000 (75% China’s electricity)

    Coal – U.S. 10,000 (32% U.S. electricity)

    Oil 36,000 (33% of energy, 8% of electricity)

    Natural Gas 4,000 (22% global electricity)

    Biofuel/Biomass 24,000 (21% global energy)

    Solar (rooftop) 440 (< 1% global electricity)

    Wind 150 (2% global electricity)

    Hydro – global average 1,400 (16% global electricity)

    Hydro – U.S. 5 (6% U.S. electricity)

    Nuclear – global average 90 (11% global electricity w/Chern&Fukush)

    Nuclear – U.S. 0.1 (19% U.S. electricity)

    I still.cant find where these figures are sourced, but at least these figures account for the actual amount of generation in proportion to deaths.