How Deadly Is Your Kilowatt? We Rank The Killer Energy Sources

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/#3c839a52709b

Everyone’s heard of the carbon footprint of different energy sources, the largest footprint belonging to coal because every kWhr of energy produced emits about 900 grams of CO2. Wind and nuclear have the smallest carbon footprint with only 15 g emitted per kWhr.
But how dangerous different energy sources are for people working with them?


2 Comments

  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Google Wants to Use AI to Cut the UK’s Electric Bill by 10 Percent
    http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25648/google-save-uk-10-percent-electric-bill/

    Using Deepmind’s AI, the company could optimize the entire country’s energy infrastructure to cut costs and reduce emissions.

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  2. Giulio says:

    This Is a misleading table because It mix direct death by Energy source with undirect death by work on Energy source. Plus It don’t calculate the medium and long time damages.

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