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Human-summarized: people are using lead-acid batteries for storage, and there's a cottage industry in recycling them by hand, because Malawi is an incredibly po
by pjc50 8mo ago
Human-summarized: people are using lead-acid batteries for storage, and there's a cottage industry in recycling them by hand, because Malawi is an incredibly poor country.
- _aavaa_ 8mo agoI guess this is then bordering on anti-solar propaganda.
- GuestFAUniverse 8mo agoEsp. because most coal powerplants emit huge amount of heavy metals like mercury (naturally occuring in coal). E.g. even the mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamps criticized for their mercury content brought _less_ mercury into the environment compared to a classic light bulb. Because nearly every country's energy mix had so much coal, that the pollution by the excess usage covered landscapes with more heavy metals than the miniscule amount in the energy savers.