Summary.
Solar energy is a rapidly growing market, which should be good news for the environment. Unfortunately there’s a catch. The replacement rate of solar panels is faster than expected and given the current very high recycling costs, there’s a real danger that all used panels will go straight to landfill (along with equally hard-to-recycle wind turbines).
Does solar make any sense?
Lucas Collins
Jacob Bennett
It's a scam
Dylan Ross
The issue is storing Solar in grid capacity batteries so it can be used at night.
MIT invented the new Molten Antimony battery LMB.
Solar and wind are no good if you cant store the power.
Julian Lewis
I'm astonished that any of this is news. They last 20 years and they get shipped off to dusty shit holes when they hit their half life.
They then wind up in some dusty landfill because there's no money to be made on recycling panels.
Politicians prey on widespread ignorance.
Leo Gray
They get sent to africa's secondhand market so n'dongo can charge his razr.
Bentley Green
Sliding this thread hard with bits and shills working hard to fuck it up:
Jason Baker
Bismuth absorbs light. but dont tell anybody.
Isaac Walker
Power storage doesn't fix that solar panels are consumables with shit yields with no incentive to recycle.
Cameron Brown
>muh recycling is too expensive
i just don't fucking buy this story.
you cannot tell me that cutting up and melting down wind turbine blades is somehow harder than CARVING NEW ORE OUT OF THE EARTH and dragging all that tonnage through the refining processes and allll of it's losses... yet there it is, miles upon miles of exactly the metal you need sitting in landfills........
It all reeks of producers with some hidden regulatory monopoly preventing recirculated material from getting into the market somehow.
Adrian Gutierrez
did you even try researching it? even globohomo has some decent info
Dominic Hernandez
What will happen if we "extract" too much of the Sun's energy?
Is there a possibility the climate will collapse if we start directing too much of the sun's energy into the panels instead of ground, air, etc.?
Tyler Miller
Solar is based. My dad has a system and he pays nothing. Energy corpos should be lined up and shot.
Anthony Wilson
Just 20 years? So the whole point was to use green energy to “save the planet”, but we will continue to pollute the planet and produce “greenhouse gases” to make solar panels because you have some distorted view of how “green” they are?
Asher Taylor
>the replacement rate of solar panels is faster than expected
Because there's a massive supply of used solar panels in the US and China.
Jaxon Ross
this board is fucking infested with bots. gfy nigger
Jordan Martinez
Those blades are made of fiberglass and resin. You can't recycle that shit.
Adrian Mitchell
Looks like we win again, nuclearchads
Jaxson Phillips
with 7 billion less people, yeah
Nathaniel Anderson
Angel Fisher
>The replacement rate of solar panels is faster than expected
Posts zero proof.
Angel Ross
Honestly that’s a pretty good question. My take would be that on homes it would be fine, but if you were to place these on the ground in a pasture type area, it may cause of some problems. Since plants require sunlight to do photosynthesis. Id imagine you would be reducing the available energy to planes in the area. Perhaps even mess with the local ground temperature as well? No idea if it would be an issue since the earth is massive.
The best thing to do would be to place them in deserts only.
Joseph Price
They brake even after 10 years on my island. I have a 20 year old panel still outputting something.
Kayden Martinez
Yeah, in a calculator.
Also, if you can get a hold of cheap panels and know decent weather-proofing techniques, and you life in Florida or the SW US, installing them on your roof is a huge boon.
Daniel Cox
personally i love rare earth heavy metals from chinas huge mining facilities all over the world making big bucks then polluting every land based water source in the world and driving human illness
magnets will stick to everyone soon enough, and not just from some of the jabs
thank you solar libcuck buttfuckers
John Myers
Do solar cells rot away?
Levi Taylor
Cars barely last that long.
Henry Kelly
Solar panels are a complete waste of energy and resources. They are also an environmental hazard given how much space they use.
Remember that if an energy source doesn't generate enough energy to replace itself in a short amount of time it is unsustainable and worthless.
Connor Green
I've been off grid solar last 3 years sure you mat have to make some lifestyle changes but it's definitely viable and pays for itself in no time with current electricity prices
Colton Gutierrez
Nuclear makes the most sense. Everything else is a horrible waste of resources.
Kevin Martin
Solar sucks. Nuclear is great for the base load of a grid
t. Electrical Engineer
Benjamin Reed
Here we have 2 fucking morons - the heat from collection goes right back into the environment YOU DUMB FUCKS
wires heating from electric flow
electric motors heating
ANY "work" done with the electricity
GOD DAMNED SCIENCE FLUNKIES IN POL AGAIN
back to plebbit for your buttfucking sessions
Hudson Rogers
>does something having the sun beat on it for years eventually deteriorate
Think, user.
Isaiah White
Production of solar panels creates cadmium pollution. Most panels made in China, China just dumps the shit into rivers. Cadmium poisoning/exposure is a genetic poison. Will fuck up your kids kids.
Benjamin Robinson
Photovoltaics is still in it's infancy, we need more research into shit like perovskite and borophene.
Thermal solar energy otoh is safe and effective. You just need mirrors and good old water turbines.
But as always, retards would rather chase the hype train instead of informing themselves.
Joseph Russell
solar panels in the desert could be built in such a way that you could actually grow more plants under them since the certain amount of shade would reduce the water requirements for plants to grow there
Christian Cox
Grass. Sage.
James Butler
no time is ackshually 20 years
Luis Williams
>there’s a real danger that all used panels will go straight to landfill
This is literally what Africa and Detroit are for