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Nukes are scary, but don’t forget coal

By Erik Curren | March 24, 2011

death rate per watts chart

With all the focus on the situation in Japan, it's easy to forget that global society's biggest source of electric power, good old fashioned coal, is pretty dangerous stuff. And with the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon spill coming up next month, we should remember that oil's pretty dangerous too. Marketing guru Seth Godin turns data on deaths-per-terawatt of energy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: coal, communication, George Monbiot, nuclear power, Seth Godin

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