Originally posted by: BettyA1
The last few years have seen growing concern over what happens to solar panels at the end of their life. Consider the following statements:
• The problem of solar panel disposal “will explode with full force in two or three decades and wreck the environment” because it “is a huge amount of waste and they are not easy to recycle.”
• “The reality is that there is a problem now, and it’s only going to get larger, expanding as rapidly as the PV industry expanded 10 years ago.”
• “Contrary to previous assumptions, pollutants such as lead or carcinogenic cadmium can be almost completely washed out of the fragments of solar modules over a period of several months, for example by rainwater.”
Were these statements made by the right-wing Heritage Foundation? Koch-funded global warming deniers? The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal?
None of the above. Rather, the quotes come from a senior Chinese solar official, a 40-year veteran of the U.S. solar industry, and research scientists with the German Stuttgart Institute for Photovoltaics.
With few environmental journalists willing to report on much of anything other than the good news about renewables, it’s been left to environmental scientists and solar industry leaders to raise the alarm.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/23/if-solar-panels-are-so-clean-why-do-they-produce-so-much-toxic-waste/?sh=555dd3f6121c
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2021/06/21/why-everything-they-said-about-solar---including-that-its-clean-and-cheap---was-wrong/?sh=57e0d3a5fe53
Did you know at night the solar panel operates on baseload power which operates on fossil fuel they despise so much- oil gas, coal ( Cz I didn't knew until recently)
The solar panels, the windmills require constant supply which we all know doesn't happen in nature
The Lithium batteries used in these, the mining of lithium itself causes massive air contamination and spil erosion, they also require huge raw material
The environmentalists say 'yeah, but still it cannot be worse than drilling'
Not to mention the millions of birds getting caught and killed in the windmills... But they say 'yeah, but cat and buildings kill more birds...'
What?
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