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abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You havent been attacked by a solar panel? Theyre awfully vicious in my area /s

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  • Forester@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I left solar off cause its the safest only deaths are falls and accidental electrocutions unless you count the odd deaths from being hit in the head or crushed.

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    • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      So the solar panels do attack people.

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• Forester@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The chinese claim only 26k deaths some estimates place it at 260k deaths i’m not being exact its a ballpark. No one source tracks all deaths from renewables or fossil fuels or nuclear. 52 dams collapsed not one.

  structural failures rather than a product of the power source and what do you think collapsed the dams if not the power source?

  Its mismanagement and failure to properly engineer for the situation on hand. Water is heavy the built weak dams to generate hydro power. They had a cascade of containment failure events. likely ~130k people died directly from this event. The other ~10k is a rough estimate on other deaths from similar incidents en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st…

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    so… hydroelectric power stations collapsed, thus renewable energies like wind turbines and solar power are bad?

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    • Forester@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If nuclear is too scary because it killed ~5k why is hydro considered safe when it has a kill count 100X higher?

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      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        that’s not the question here. Why are you throwing unrelated things in with hydro?

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