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[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

4x as many individuals have died from rooftop solar accidents, such as electricution and falls

Those are from installation and construction. Your statistic doesn't include construction deaths for nuclear plants. So the metric is biased. People fall doing any type of construction, including nuclear plants and solar panels.

Also, construction of solar panels has more deaths because of the workers involved. The "construction team" adding panels to your house may be just two guys on meth. If the same two guys worked on a nuclear plant, they would have equally high fatalities. If you used the construction workers from a nuclear plant to do a basic home solar panel installation, it would virtually eliminate fatalities due to better safety.

You can't prove your point with flawed metrics, no matter how many times you repeat yourself. Nuclear plants are expensive and require constant maintenance. Solar panels are literally mounted on top of elementary schools. They're cheap and easy to put up and take down. Wind turbines need a little more maintenance and construction but they are also simple compared to nuclear plants. These are facts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Also, construction of solar panels has more deaths because of the workers involved. The "construction team" adding panels to your house may be just two guys on meth. If the same two guys worked on a nuclear plant, they would have equally high fatalities. If you used the construction workers from a nuclear plant to do a basic home solar panel installation, it would virtually eliminate fatalities due to better safety.

Even if every construction worker was hopped up on whatever you can imagine, it wouldn't even matter.

It takes 2 workers to install 10 kW in solar panels that (might) last 15 years. That's 75 kW-years of energy per construction worker.

It takes 1200 construction workers to build a 1000 MW reactor which will operate for (at least) 50 years. That's about 42 MW-years per construction worker, or 42000 kW-years per construction worker.

Nuclear construction could have over 500x the accident rate of rooftop solar installation and still be safer. Try again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

lol your meth comment made me lose all interest in this conversation. that was gross. im blocking you and standing by my words until someone who can actually cite a stat in good faith comes through, because i have based all my arguments off the best reasearch i can find and you have provided nothing but baseless assertions. take care ❤️

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago

For other people reading this: yes, roofers take meth. I don't advocate doing roofing work on meth (or meth in general), but they do it. It's reality.

Reality is more than just numbers on a page. If anyone has fatality stats for different energy generation methods that stand up to mild scrutiny, please post them.