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Genuine question: How much energy, minerals, transportation, manufacturing, etc, etc. goes into making the panels. How much are the panels going to make back pe
by johng 8mo ago
Genuine question: How much energy, minerals, transportation, manufacturing, etc, etc. goes into making the panels. How much are the panels going to make back percentage wise in it's lifetime vs. the cost to make and transport, install?
Corn kind of reproduces itself every year (If you don't get the GMO kind), so you only need natural resources to continue to grow it right? Water, sunlight and labor?
- MrDrMcCoy 8mo agoHe goes over that in the video. It's long, but very much worth watching.
- tfyoung 8mo ago> Corn kind of reproduces itself every year (If you don't get the GMO kind), so you only need natural resources to continue to grow it right? Water, sunlight and labor? At industrial scale, it has a huge petro-chemical fertiliser input.
- pfdietz 8mo agoTotal energy input to agriculture in the US is less than 2% of total energy consumption. So "huge" there has to be taken in context. All the energy inputs to agriculture could be replaced with non-fossil inputs. Fertilizer in particular needs hydrogen to make ammonia, but that can be produced from non-fossil sources.