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2. I specified the radiation from Fukushima releases, and I recognize that sunlight is a known carcinogen but...
Fri Feb 16, 2024, 08:48 PM
Feb 2024

...I won't go full Trump and say PV solar cells cause cancer, unless one is referring to the carcinogens released by fossil fuels because solar energy is unreliable.

It is, however, undeniably true, as you say that solar energy causes cancer.

Consider yourself re-tweaked.

For the record, heat mortality is generally purely thermal and generally not necessarily involved with radiation. People can and do die from extreme heat indoors in the absence of air conditioning on in the shade.

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