Compare
Put two to four sources head to head across every measure at once. Each measure has its own scale — you can't weigh deaths and dollars on one axis — and each source keeps one colour throughout. The winner changes with the measure.
Deaths
per TWhCO₂
g/kWh, lifecycleLand
km²/TWh/yrCost
$/MWh, LazardCarbon cost
$/MWh at $190/tMortality cost
$/MWh at $14.1MWhat drives each
Coal
Long-term particulate exposure across the public. Chronic effects account for roughly 88–99% of the total; acute accidents are the remainder.
Gas
Modeled combustion-pollution deaths dominate; accidents are a small share. Upstream methane leakage is a climate concern but not counted here as a death mechanism.
Nuclear
Modeled cancer projections under the linear no-threshold (LNT) model dominate, not acute accident deaths. LNT is contested, and dropping it would push the rate lower still.
Solar
Occupational accidents — installation falls above all — dominate. Manufacturing risk is a smaller modeled share.
Bars are each measure's central estimate, scaled within that card; hover a value for its low–high band. Carbon and mortality costs value CO₂ and deaths at the central published figures — see Value of a life and Methodology.