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georgefrownytoday at 2:00 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes, indeed all are far below the next one (hydro, 1.3, dam failures, I imagine).

And brown coal is sitting pretty at 36+, i.e. ONE THOUSAND times worse than nuclear.


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pfdietztoday at 2:22 PM

The cost for coal depends a lot on how the emissions are treated, and how deaths from CO2 are calculated. A general problem with the latter is these are global deaths, and foreign lives are valued far below domestic lives. Kind of horrible, but choices on spending illustrate this.