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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Hydro power isn't that safe. Its kills more people than any other means of generation.
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That was all from one failure in 1970s China in a 1 in 2000 year flood. So yeah, a couple of times between each ice age I suppose it's possible before modern communications.
Now how many people have been saved from the control of flooding that also used to kill 1000s a year in areas "fixed" by adding a few days to the system? Go back to 1931 in China and over 3 million people were killed in flooding before the dams were in place. Makes the 150,000 killed in the 1975 failure seem like a better deal. They had 3 times the population in 1975 as well and the flooding was bigger then in 1931.