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Building millions of solar panels is an ecological disaster waiting to happen. ...not only for the destruction of natural habitats, but the CO2 emitted in manu
by q1w2 5y ago
Building millions of solar panels is an ecological disaster waiting to happen.
...not only for the destruction of natural habitats, but the CO2 emitted in manufacturing and replacing all those panels, and the garbage disaster of disposing of them.
- photochemsyn 5y agoThe solar breeder factory was proposed in 1978. A solar manufacturing facility powered by, yes, solar panels. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978pvse.conf..825L/abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978pvse.conf..825L/abstra...
- q1w2 5y agoThis does not include the energy needed to mine and manufacture the raw materials needed to build the solar panels. Most of those rare-earth elements in photovoltaics comes from vast mining operations in China.