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Solar panel manufacturing and disposal is far from clean though.
by gtirloni 5y ago
Solar panel manufacturing and disposal is far from clean though.
- elric 5y agoAnd you think this is going to be any different for fusion plants?
- gtirloni 5y agoYou seem to think it's not going to be any different (or maybe even worse). Could you elaborate?
- kolinko 5y agoWhat disposal? Less than 1% of the solar plants have been ever decommissioned. It's hard to set up recycling plants if you have nothing to recycle yet.
- gtirloni 5y agoLifespan is 25-30 years, they don't last infinitely. What's your point?
- kolinko 5y agoThe point is that it's hard to expect industrial processes for recycling solar panels now, since there is no market for them yet, and won't really be any for the next decade. Also, the lifespan is 25-30 years, but after that time the panels will still maintain 50-80% efficiency - so they can be reused for different purposes (or shipped to Africa, where there is a plenty of cheap space, sunlight, and they will work well).
- socialdemocrat 5y agoYou can easily throw solar panels in a land fill. It isn't a big problem. Slag heaps from coal is already a much larger problem than a solar panel landfill would ever be. A single coal mine has a bigger slag problem than all the worlds solar panels combined. Yes, we should take the problem serious, but it is also grossly overrated. It is certainly not a reason to avoid solar panels. https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/recycling-solar-panel-waste/ https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/recycling-solar-panel-wa...