Posted on 05/27/2018 8:36:10 AM PDT by bryan999
You can also get natural gas from natural sources. Doesn’t beat mining for it, but you can.
My tiny 12 volt panel was deemed by the manufacturer to have a 10 year life.
If that holds for the larger, newer panels, there is going to be more than mountains of toxic trash.
Check out the Cobalt mining in Nigeria for some fun. Cobalt is used in the manufacture of Lithium-Ion batteries.
On the west coast, we haven’t heard one peep from the environmentalists about the power needs used to process all the marijuana that was legalized.
Liberals are incapable of rational thought and critical thinking. Anyway, I believe I read that we export used electric car batteries to China and India to make them even more shitholes.
Wait till they find out about the batteries for electric cars...lol
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And then there are the motors in their precious windmills ...
Wait till they find out about the batteries for electric cars...lol
batteries for battery powered cars. they are not electric unless they are dragging an extension cord behind them.
my kid’s toy car has a rechargeable battery. is it an electric car?
my flashlight has a rechargeable battery. is it an electric flashlight? it is if I plug it into a wall socket.
Idiots. They were warned repeatedly.
“When your “thinking” is 100% based on emotionalism, you fail to see the big picture.
More of a political nightmare. Lift the prohibition on reprocessing and open the Yucca Mountain disposal site and 99% of the waste disposal problem is solved.
One could genetically modify spores to eat hydrocarbons and list them into the atmosphere to eat the particulates. I’m sure there are plenty of workable ideas to clean up pollution. You just have to get the govt out of it.
“...Solar technology typically contains cadmium, lead and other toxic chemicals that can’t be extracted without taking apart the whole panel, resulting in entire solar panels being considered hazardous....”
Whee! Let’s go solar!
>>Leftists never seem to take into consideration the Law of Unintended Consequences. That, or they just don’t care.<<
It was the leftists that DEMANDED we change to plastic bags to save trees even tough modern tree foresting/reforesting techniques were in place and mature.
A few years later they are DEMANDING we NOT use plastic bags and instead promote disease by using contaminated reusable bags.
The left doesn’t CARE about consequences. It just wants to virtue signal and then go to bed thinking “O What A Good Person I Am.”
This is yet another example of the typical Leftist idiocy of only looking at the top layer of something, and deciding whether they like it or not based on how it feels.
I think it will be the supreme irony if some engineering firm or government department did a life cycle analysis on solar powered homes vs. natural gas-fueled power plants supplying electricity to homes, and it turned out that the fossil fuel powered option was less damaging to the environment. It would be just like the life cycle analysis that showed that a Hummer was less damaging to the environment over its entire life cycle than a Toyota Prius.
All those "toxins" are encapsulated and sealed from the environment as long as the panels are intact. The problems come when you start breaking them apart and break open that encapsulation. I suspect most of the panels will be "recycled" as whole units in the second-hand market.
or the analysis comparing plastic grocery bags to paper bags. The plastics were WAY better in every category.
Actually, they have the technology to recycle lithium-ion batteries. But recycling solar panels?
They know the press will cover for them... that's why they're careless...
California and other liberal havens will come up with ineffective, complex, expensive bureaucracies to shift the cost from those who purchase the panels to someone else. Dumping will be a problem in lakes, oceans, fields, etc as people decide it's easier to dump that pay $1K or more.
“They are by and large innumerate and completely incapable of second derivative thinking.”
Second derivative? You give them too much credit. Libs live in a static model.
In that rare event they start thinking dynamic it is always based upon one data point and the pin wheel starts. It can be entertaining as the angular velocity defies relativity.
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