re: #435 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

No by calling for these things I am describing the scenario I support.

I shared from my Google a risk reward conclusion that I have confidence in after reading it. Seems reasonable enough once you understanding the share of data as intended.

The climate consequences of fossil fueled kilowatts compared to a particular nuke that has both a long record of production and is in need of changes, modifications. I trust that if Edison had been able to run the one unit at 70% they could then have best learned the best engineering solutions.

The following applies to San Onofre as a nuke.

forbes.com

But an energy’s deathprint, as it is called, is rarely discussed. The deathprint is the number of people killed by one kind of energy or another per kWhr produced and, like the carbon footprint, coal is the worst and wind and nuclear are the best. According to the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Academy of Science and many health studies over the last decade (NAS 2010), the adverse impacts on health become a significant effect for fossil fuel and biofuel/biomass sources (see especially Brian Wang for an excellent synopsis). In fact, the WHO has called biomass burning in developing countries a major global health issue (WHO int). The table below lists the mortality rate of each energy source as deaths per trillion kWhrs produced. The numbers are a combination of actual direct deaths and epidemiological estimates, and are rounded to two significant figures.

Energy Source Mortality Rate (deaths/trillionkWhr)

Coal - global average 170,000 (50% global electricity)

Coal - China 280,000 (75% China’s electricity)

Coal - U.S. 15,000 (44% U.S. electricity)

Oil 36,000 (36% of energy, 8% of electricity)

Natural Gas 4,000 (20% global electricity)

Biofuel/Biomass 24,000 (21% global energy)

Solar (rooftop) 440 (< 1% global electricity)

Wind 150 (~ 1% global electricity)

Hydro - global average 1,400 (15% global electricity)

Nuclear - global average 90 (17% global electricity w/Chern&Fukush)