Wait till they find out about the batteries for electric cars...lol
You mean something’s worse than CO2? Say it ain’t so!
Leftists never seem to take into consideration the Law of Unintended Consequences. That, or they just don’t care.
How is that “paper or plastic” working for ya?
Well hell ... no problem. Just dispose of them in landfills with all the CFL light bulbs containing mercury. Whatever could possibly go wrong with all of this.
I was watching a German documentary piece around 2013, and they had a guy who laid out the massive problem coming up in ten to fifteen years as the older generation solar panels would have to be retired/replaced. All kinds of precautions would have to occur, and there was a cost to each activity. He figured the average home owner, who’d gone this direction and put ten panels up...would have to pay a minimum 1,500 Euro (roughly 2k dollars) as a disposal fee.
I say return the metals to the moon from ehich they came.
What? surely not. Those toxic metals were extracted from the earth? Are there others still there? are we all gonna die?
We recycle, all of our animas are rescues & be foundling/ no breeders, we try not to waste things, BUT.........these people are just spending their time finding new things to chicken Little over. Have at it.......the rest of us will be enjoying life!
Lefties got their way making solar panels mandatory in some new California buildings, now they’re worried about solar panels being “safe”? Oopsie!
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.
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.
Idiots. They were warned repeatedly.
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!
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.
Actually, they have the technology to recycle lithium-ion batteries. But recycling solar panels?
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.
You know this is amazing. Especially in aerospace and automotive and their processes, chemicals and materials within them, etc everything has to be so benign you could darn near test it on a bunny’s eye to prevent lawsuits later by employees and the cost of getting rid of the toxins, and the Solar Panel industry escaped this scrutiny?
Liberals never do this. They always assume that there is nothing bad about their great ideas.
Leftists do this and then the cover up the bad things while praising the good.