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by H8crilA 2560 days ago
Coal is so bad that we'd have to have one Chernobyl nearly every week all the time to catch up with death rates.

Coal deaths per energy: ~ 100k / PWh

Coal consumption per year: > 40 PWh

Coal deaths per year: >4M

Chernobyl death estimates: 4k to 93k

Which gives 4M / 93k = 43 Chernobyls per year to catch up with coal (best case estimates).