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And, solar panels are becoming more efficient every year, so it does not make sense to me to embed them in a bike path that will last decades. The most efficic
by dorfsmay 12y ago
And, solar panels are becoming more efficient every year, so it does not make sense to me to embed them in a bike path that will last decades.
The most efficicient in terms of both finance and environment, to use solar panels is probably to replace them as soon as they have paid for themselves.
- maxerickson 12y agoWhat are you doing with the old panels then? As long as they are still making some reasonable amount of power, it doesn't seem like recycling/reprocessing/discarding the materials could be better for the environment that continuing to use them. That's all harder to figure out if you don't have vast unoccupied spaces to put solar panels, but at the moment we do have that.