Comment by pfdietz

> maximum benefit

If we do that, we need to assign a value to a statistical human life. This is usually taken to be something like $12M (adjusted for age).

And having done that, we discover the contribution of lost lives to the cost of solar and wind (and nuclear, without accidents) is lost in the noise. So the problem ends up choosing the source that is directly cheaper; differences in deaths per TWh can be ignored.