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It is that simple. "Energy intensive" is irrelevant. On average, a solar panel will capture more energy in its lifetime than the amount used to create and event
by mrshadowgoose 2y ago
It is that simple. "Energy intensive" is irrelevant. On average, a solar panel will capture more energy in its lifetime than the amount used to create and eventually recycle it.
So please stop repeating that useless whine.
- sitkack 2y agoThis is easy to refute. Take the commercial price of power for the location of manufacture and divide your retail price by that amount. The result will be the upper bound in MWh that could have possibly gone into the creation of that panel. Chinese solar panels cost less than 15 cents a watt. In the NW with residential prices at 10 cents per KWh, it takes 1500 hrs to break even. With 4hrs of "full sun" per day on average at PNW latitudes, about a year. This is just the panel not the system. The BS that panels take more energy to produce than they generate is disproven. https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/In-Stock-TRINA-Vertex-Solar-Cell_1600995276082.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.p_offer.d_title.1308596fd9fgIx&s=p https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/In-Stock-TRINA-Vertex... The tariffs on solar are stupider than the Iraq war. If China can produce panels at 10 cents a watt wholesale, we should give them billions of dollars to make as many as they can. Train everyone in the military to install them.