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5 years is a ridiculous underestimate. 20 is more reasonable.
by pjc50 7mo ago
5 years is a ridiculous underestimate. 20 is more reasonable.
- citrin_ru 7mo ago5 years is the worst case estimate, with 20 years lifetime this dependency on China is even less bad.
- jeffbee 7mo agoNobody is retiring solar panels after only 20 years.
- NoLinkToMe 7mo agoEven 20 years is much below what most studies show. Panels tend to keep functioning well beyond 30 years, with degradation at 86%. It might be true that economically in 30 years they're so much cheaper that it's worth replacing them with new panels, but that's an optimisation, not a question of replacement need. Inverters a different story.