Re: Car safety stats (risk of death vs risk of killing other drivers)
 

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:15:36 -0500, Dillon Pyron
<invaliddmpyron@austin.rr.com> wrote:

>Thus spake Gordon McGrew <RgEmMcOgVrEew@mindspring.com> :
>
>>On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:40:34 -0500, Joe
>><joe@spam.hits-spam-buffalo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>At some point, we have to make tough decisions and do things that
>>>aren't as palatable as we'd like.
>>
>>This is the truest statement in the tread. Nuclear power may be the
>>best choice in the long run. In the mean time, higher energy taxes
>>are needed to encourage conservation.
>>
>>> Nuclear power is safer and cleaner
>>>than most other forms right now, but there's always that fear of a
>>>meltdown in the general population.
>>
>>The possibility of a major nuclear accident is real. It is extremely
>>unlikely on any given day, but if you build enough of them and run
>>them long enough, it will happen and it will be truly awful.
>>
>
>Coal power is very safe. Assuming you aren't mining it or live very
>close to a coal ash mound.

You have to add in all the people killed by particulate emissions from
coal fired plants. US deaths are estimated at 20,000 to 30,000 per
year.

>More people were killed in 2007 in coal mining accidents in the US
>than have been killed in ALL US nuclear accidents. Power, weapons,
>research, etc.
>
>In China, it seems that there are more people killed in coal mining
>accidents in a month than all the people killed in nuclear accidents
>around the world.

Again, that is something which could change very quickly.