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Summary[edit]
Common power plant types, listed in order of safety from most deadly to most safe, per unit of energy produced, as of 2016.
There are several different sources for this information, all different, but the general visual trend is the same.
ENERGY SOURCE DEATHS FATAL/TWH TWH NOTES ----------------- --------- --------- ------- ------------------------------------- Coal – world avg. 2,200,000 244.00 9,000 (10% world energy, 41% of electricity.) Coal – China 1,300,000 325.00 4,000 Utilizing heavily-manual practices Coal – USA 10.00 Mostly open-pit and u/g machine Oil 2,400,000 52.00 42,000 (40% of world energy, 4.4% of electricity) Natural Gas 300,000 20.00 15,000 (15% of world energy, 11% of electricity) Biofuel/Biomass 50.00 Peat 50.00 Solar (rooftop) 12 0.1 110 (1.0% of world electricity) Wind 105 0.15 700 (2.8% of world electricity) Hydro 400 0.10 4,000 (EU deaths, 2.2% of world energy) Hydro + Banqiao) 4,000 1.00 4,000 (~4000 TWh/yr + 171,000 Banqiao dead) Nuclear 104 0.04 2,600 (3% of world energy, 10% of electricity) ----------------- --------- --------- ------- ------------------------------------- World 5,000,000 47 105,000 Terawatt-hours Unaccounted for 95,400 1,500 TWh = 6.00% … fatalities prorated
- Source: Update of Death per Terawatt hour by Energy Source, Brian L. Wang, June 03, 2016
- Similar sources:
- Older version: Deaths per TWH by energy source, Brian L. Wang, March 13, 2011
- Lifetime version: Lifetime deaths per TWH from energy sources, Brian L. Wang, March 28, 2011
- Forbes: How Deadly Is Your Kilowatt? We Rank The Killer Energy Sources, James Conca, JUN 10, 2012
- Economic Analysis of Various Options of Electricity Generation - Taking into Account Health and Environmental Effects, Nils Starfelt and Carl-Erik Wikdahl
- Diagram 3 "Mean values of health effects, presented as deaths/TWh, for the respective forms of electricity generation throughout the EU", based on the EU ExternE project
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current | 20:46, 6 November 2016 | 677 × 519 (17 KB) | Hmmph (talk | contribs) | Add data labels, simplify axis labels, change to bloody red for death, add Banqiao to hydro (not that it makes any visible difference.) | |
06:17, 27 October 2016 | 672 × 521 (14 KB) | Hmmph (talk | contribs) | Source: http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/06/update-of-death-per-terawatt-hour-by.html Similar sources: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/ http://www.nuceng.ca/refer/risk/15%20-%20Polenp~1.pdf ... |
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