Do Solar PV or Wind Turbine Disasters have a Scale?

[Kennah]

Just checking.

[phantom power]

1. C major

[Blue Meany]

2. You mean like a Class 7 wind spill? n/t

[Ryano42]

3. Let's see...sunburn...

Tossled hairdos.

If a propeller falls off that would hurt.

Some solar collectors get really hot.

If you're a bird, could get dangerous around a wind farm.

:)

[Ian David]

4. This would be a Level 7 Wind Turbine Accident

Man killed when wind tower collapses

NEAR WASCO, Ore. - A giant wind turbine tower collapsed Saturday in Eastern Oregon, causing a worker to fall to his death and another man to be injured.

The man killed is from Goldendale, Wash., while the second man is from Minnesota, according to Deputy Geremy Shull of the Sherman County Sheriff's Office.

The man from Minnesota was at last check listed in serious but stable condition at Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles, Shull said.

He did not release the names of the men.

More:
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/9383316.html

[Drale]

5. A Wind Turbine might smush some people if it fell over

but no. I would also like to point out, that this current situation is a worst case scenario. I believe that we should be investing in renewable forms of power now instead of building more nuclear plants, but we shouldn't shut down the current plants we do have just because something might happen like some people here are suggesting.

[CJvR]

6. Well...

<Monty Burns>...solar radiation clearly kills more people / year than any man made radiation.</Monty Burns>

Wind turbines need a BW/h (Birds Whacked / hour) and a NIKS ( Noise Induced Killing Spree ) rating.

[Kennah]

7. It's true that wind turbines need a BW/h rating, just like ...

... buildings, cars, communication towers, power lines, and cats.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201005040009

[Old and In the Way]

8. It's a huge potential disaster....

if you're in the oil/coal/nuclear power business.

[jtrockville]

9. But where will we store all the "weapons grade" solar/wind waste?

And at what cost to guard it?

No, these are too dangerous. Nukes are surely the way to go.

[reggie the dog]

10. well they don't cause human tragedy but harm the energy economy

so we are really unfortunate i guess that is what msnbc said anyways.