Nationally - NatGas accounts for an average of 17 fatalities per year.
To put that in perspective in 2018 there were 20 direct lightning fatalities, up from 16 in 2017 which was lowest since record-keeping began in 1941. From 2009 to 2018 on average 27 people died each year from lightning strikes in the United States, according to the National Weather Service. Lightning strike deaths in Colorado average 3 per year.
About 240,000 people are injured by lightning strikes each year. One estimate is that the annual global death toll is 6,000.
NatGas can be dangerous yes..however other energy source proponents such as solar and wind have done a masterful job of demonizing NatGas in order to "sell" the publc on their technology. Both are plagued with peak demand limitations on a mass scale..i.e solar doesn't work at night ..and the wind doesnt always blow when you need it.
Think renewable energy sources are perfectLy safe? Think again. Workers in the solar energy industry are potentially exposed to a variety of serious hazards, such as arc flashes (which include arc flash burn and blast hazards), electric shock, falls, and thermal burn hazards that can cause injury and death.
Bloom fuel cells do not burn the NatGas to produce electricity. The "Camp Fire" was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. It is also the deadliest wildfire in the United States since the Cloquet fire in 1918 and is high on the list of the world's deadliest wildfires; it is the sixth-deadliest U.S. wildfire overall. Know what caused that fire? Faulty power-grid components. Bloom NatGas fuel cells require no powergrid. None. Zero. No unsightly high voltage towers criss-crossing the countryside. Can you imagine the cost savings, environmental impact and a world with no telephone poles! I can.
The Council on Foreign Relations released a report on the vulnerability of the U.S. power grid, and it pointed out the system's central role to America's economy and overall functioning of society. ... There were 2,975 deaths caused by the lost power grid, 46 times as many as the 64 who died in the actual hurricane.
You want something to worry about in Colorado - worry about real threats..not the threats generated by politically motivated activists with a blind bias against NatGas. I.e. zealots.
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The highest ideal a person holds, consciously or unconsciously, that's their "god". - Jordan Peterson quoting Carl Jung a Swiss Psychologist of the 19th & 20th century
