[rktman]

Not the one I was looking for but still an admonishment of the "clean" solar push. Nobody wants to talk about any of this do they.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Yucca mountain.

[Logical me]

That's OK. California will just offer a new trash can for solar crap. Wait until some of these idiots that put that crap on their roofs when it comes time to replace worn out panels and the roof needs re-roofing from weather. Rude awaking!

[exit82]

But,but,but CLEAN ENERGY!!!!

Most of these solar panels degrade over time, with decreasing output.

25 year warranties mean nothing when the company producing them goes out of business.

[Vaduz]

Environmental progress has a deep price so much of being worth it.

[ealgeone]

I’m wondering where all of the batteries in these electric cars are going to go when their useful life is over.

[American in Israel]

Some how the radioactive waste flooding the Pacific from Fukashima seems a million times worse than a pile of broken solar panels. But then I’m not a politician.

[KC_Lion]

I just went a Family Vacation this week to Colorado. From Hays Kansas to Denver along I-70 are these truly MASSIVE Wind Turbine Farms (most of them NOT turning).

Then, below them, are tiny, itty bitty Oil Pumps, just pumping away.

The footprint of those Windmills is massive, those things are hundreds of feet high. I can't imagine what happens when one of them breaks.

Yet, the oil rig is only slightly bigger than my den I am sitting in now and to the cows there it is no more dangerous than if it was a big bolder.

[Paradox]

All of which begs the question: just how big of a problem is solar waste?

Minor peeve, but this is not "begging the question". Just like devolving does not mean evolving in reverse... just 2 of several misnomers and misuses that have become standard English nowadays.

[GOPJ]

The solar industry's exempt from responsibility from the left because they're ‘good guys’. Just like violent thugs on the left are excused for their thuggery.

The biased press ‘ takes cares of ’ their own...it's part of the MSM's pattern of corruption.

[Makana]

I just returned from a week in Madrid/Toledo.

I saw just TWO solar panel installations and they were on condos.

[arthurus]

Solar panel waste, toxic as it may be, is Good waste. Nuclear waste is Bad waste. Henry Hazlitt discussed the mindset that produces these insanities in Economics in One Lesson decades ago. It is a highly readable book that is available at several internet locations to read or to download and is cheap at Amazon and other sellers. It is a book that should be given to every child to read once in middle school and once in high school. Read and understand it (neither difficult) and it is impossible ever again to be snowed by politicians' promises involving solving promises.

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

Solar panel waste can be recycled, Nuclear waste can not. SHEESH,