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Sorry, this might seem like a dumb question but those used solar panels still produce some electricity. Why can't California pull a bunch of them from the landf
by ab_testing 4y ago
Sorry, this might seem like a dumb question but those used solar panels still produce some electricity. Why can't California pull a bunch of them from the landfill, put them in the California desert and connect them to the power lines to create a mini power plant.
- kardos 4y agoLabour intensive to round them up, test them, and design/build custom circuitry to hook up a pile of dissimilar panels. Then you have a pile of near EOL panels with reduced output and reduced reliability that is unlikely to ever break even. When it falls apart there will be no money to ship them back to the landfill. So in short, it's a roundabout way to dump them in the desert.
- freemint 4y agoThen ship them to a place where labour is cheaper.
- xsmasher 4y agoA reuse / thrift store near me takes donations of old solar panels and resells them at dirt-cheap prices; apparently there's a market for these panels with DIYers.