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Flere-Imsaho 2 days ago

Hydro electricity is also one of the most dangerous forms of energy production:

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

(This is the worst disaster, but could put Chernobyl to shame?)

Full list here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st...

lxgr 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Sure, if you consider only local dangers and don't care at all about regional or global externalities.

iso1631 a day ago | parent [-]

Yes, there are no global externalities from coal, oil and gas...

iso1631 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Well most dangerous apart from coal, oil, gas, biomass?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...

And that's before you bring into the deaths due to climate change

Flere-Imsaho 2 days ago | parent [-]

I should have pre-fixed it with "out of renewable energy".