"Hydropower is also pretty safe, though its one major incident – the 1975 [[Banqiao Dam]] Failure in [[China]], which **killed 171,000** – pushes its death rate up quite a bit. ([Location 1179](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=1179))" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[hydro-energy]], [[statistics]], [[climate-change]] **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]