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It is by far the most deadly method of power generation.
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[citation needed] That's a pretty broad reach:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphtha_launch
Alfred Nobel's aluminium-hulled sloop Mignon
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Naphtha launches
By the 1880s, the small steam engine was well established as a power unit for small steam launches, as well as for large boats. However US law, prompted by some past boiler explosions, required that all steam boats carry a licensed engineer at all times. Although this was no difficulty for a commercial craft, it prevented small steam launches from being used for personal and recreational purposes. Becoming such an engineer required an apprenticeship of two years beforehand.
A more popular alternative to the steam launch was the naphtha launch, which used an alternative power source.[1] Advertisements of the period used the deliberate phrase, "Every Man His own Engineer!"[2] to highlight this legal restriction.
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Dams have failed since ancient Mesopotamia whereas Nuclear's been around since 1945. Are we talking raw numbers or percentages?