I want to digress. «Beginning in 2006, the state, focused on how to incentivize people to take up solar power, showered subsidies on homeowners who installed p

I want to digress. «Beginning in 2006, the state, focused on how to incentivize people to take up solar power, showered subsidies on homeowners who installed photovoltaic panels but had no comprehensive plan to dispose of them. Now, panels purchased under those programs are nearing the end of their typical 25-to-30-year life cycle. Many are already winding up in landfills, where in some cases, they could potentially contaminate groundwater with toxic heavy metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium.» «Beginning in 2006» plus «typical 25-30 years life cycle», is «already» for «many» of them. And the headline says «now». I'm so tired of articles whose math doesn't add up and without any explanation. I'm not saying there can be no explanation, good or bad, or that the substantive issue isn't real, I'm just so tired of there being no explanation when the numbers don't add up.