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> Or abandon failed ideas like nukes

which produce 778 billion kwh in the united states

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> A very respectable amount of utility power is generated geothermally

16 billion kwh

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> and has been for decades without mishap.

More deaths have occurred from geothermal, total, than nuclear, despite that nuclear delivers 48x the power.

Guatemala City: 33.

Dieng: 41.

Fenton Hill: 12.

Sorik Marapi: 5.

Soultz-sous-Foretz: 19.

Calpine: three times. 1, 5, 4.

El Salvador: 12.

Sumatera: 6.

Leyte: two incidents: 5, 17.

Sarulla: 18.

Brisbane: 14.

Reykavik: 2.

It'll get worse. AltaRock had to be stopped twice for causing earthquakes. Strasbourg was permanently stopped. So was dover. Pohang's earthquakes put a city under lockdown and killed two people.

There exists no decade since the launch of geothermal power where at least 25 people didn't die. Nuclear has only had that count once.



I am sure you have also totted up all the accidents that occurred mining, refining, or transporting uranium. And, everybody poisoned by runoff from mine tailings leaching into their water supply. (Some American Indian tribes, for example, have lawsuits on over that.) And, deaths in construction accidents during plant construction, and in transporting the thousands of tons of concrete and steel. And, mining the limestone, manufacturing the concrete, and mining and making the steel.

Oh, you haven't? My mistake.




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