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>only 1 in 10 panels are actually recycled
>“The industry is supposed to be green,” Vanderhoof said. “But in reality, it’s all about the money.”
>The vast majority of residential solar arrays in the U.S. are crystalline silicon panels, which can contain lead, although it’s less prevalent in newer panels. Thin-film solar panels, which contain cadmium and selenium, are primarily used in utility-grade applications
>Only about $2 to $4 worth of materials are recovered from each panel. The majority of processing costs are tied to labor, and Orben said even recycling panels at scale would not be more economical.
>The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimated that it costs roughly $20 to $30 to recycle a panel versus $1 to $2 to send it to a landfill.
>https://web.archive.org/web/20220714141134/https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-07-14/california-rooftop-solar-pv-panels-recycling-danger

All that money California has spent to go green. I thought Solar was suppose to be the future but it sound like a environmental disaster waiting to happened.

>> No.50421341 [DELETED] 

>>50421333
Checked. Is there literally any option humanity can take that isn't just a nosedive into mass extinction?

>> No.50421356

>Nuclear is the true green option

>> No.50421378

>>50421356
this
MK3

>> No.50421406

>>50421356
unironically yes it is

>> No.50421452

>>50421333
is solar panel degradation really that big of a deal? i thought it was like 0.5% or less per year.

>> No.50421477

>>50421333
Green and renewable energy are neither green nor renewable. But it has been a great propaganda campaign.

>> No.50421610

>“But in reality, it’s all about the money.”
Truly shocking revelation here

>> No.50421634 [DELETED] 
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50421634

I LOVE THE ANTICHRIST

AND YOU SHOULD TOO!
Consider the following:

MORALS ARE RELATIVE.
CORN SYRUP: HEALTHY. NUTRITIOUS. WISE.
SEED OILS DESERVE RESPECT.
YOUR GOVERNMENT PRACTICES HONESTY AND INTEGRITY.
ENEMIES DO NOT DESERVE LOVE.
KNEEL. SUBMISSION IS DIVINE.
WORSHIP MAMMON.
WATCH TV.
BELIEVE THE MEDIA.
OBTAIN MATERIAL WEALTH.
WAR IS PEACE.
FUND THE VATICAN.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS INTELLECTUAL.
CORPORATIONS ARE YOUR FRIENDS.
BUY.
PURCHASE.
CONSUME.
ENEMIES DO NOT DESERVE FORGIVENESS.
THE UN ARE PEACEKEEPERS.
[YOU WILL] TAKE THE JAB.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
ABANDON GOD. NOT REAL.
ABANDON ALLAH. NOT REAL.
ABANDON KEK. NOT REAL.
ENEMIES DO NOT DESERE BLESSINGS.
CHINA > USA
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.

Anything you desire can be yours. Money, power, wealth, control.
Nothing says Love like the damnation of your soul.
Honestly, what do you have to lose? There's no such thing as souls!

>> No.50421657 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
A drastic reduction in living standards on a grand scale. Eat the bugs.

>> No.50421881

>>50421356
always has been

>> No.50421895
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50421895

Tree niggers got swindled again.
Nothing will happen until you force nations like China and India and Africans to stop polluting faster than first world nations can ever reduce emissions.

>> No.50421900

It's a grift, everything is. Fucking snake oil dude. Welcome to America.

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50421943

Oil & gas bro’s how long until they figure out we are behind the Green Energy shilling everywhere in order to keep our enemy #1 (nuclear) from competing?

>> No.50421996

>>50421943
They are onto something but i think they wont nail it until eony.

>> No.50422005

>>50421333
not a real picture, if they're used up, why are they so clean?

>> No.50422020

>>50421895
for anyone wondering, those are wind turbine blades. they """"can't be recycled"""" which means it's not economically feasible to recycle them. because it's not economically feasible, we sensationalize it and claim that it's physically impossible to recycle then (with pyrolysis), which is untrue. and in typical niggerbrain fashion we cope by burying them in a landfill.

every day i'm amazed at how stupid nigger cattle and kike capitalists are.

>> No.50422035

Dont care however. I'm printing either way.
Hail Mammon

>> No.50422099

>>50421333
the lead and cadmium isn't even the worst part about it
degrading silicon from solar panels has the same health risks as asbestos
inhale a gust that flew over the dump today, untreatable death 20 years later and the slow and very painful kind of death

>> No.50422109 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
Geothermal and hydro. Literally free power from heat or gravity.
They say damns release a fuck ton of green house gas, but surely there is a way mitigate it with a smaller reservoir or using a desert. But that’s not who is paying politicians

>> No.50422131

>>50422099
>degrading silicon from solar panels has the same health risks as asbestos
wait really? never heard of it

>> No.50422160

>>50422131
it's not true, he's a complete retard.

>> No.50422164

>>50421333
>solar panels contribute waste
>posts pic of cartoon solar panels
surely you can find a real pic right?

>> No.50422186

without a brown culling solar and wind are always necessary
you can't trust browns to build and manage nuclear

>> No.50422220 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
For this issue, charge the consumer a $30 recycling fee for each panel at point of sale. Use this money to help fund recycling.

>> No.50422224 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
Tactical genocide

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>>50421341
yeah it's called a strong government that regulates pollution and waste. nigger cattle will seethe and cry that it's "communism" or whatever, meanwhile we'd be swimming in toxic waste and putting out river fires if it was up to them.
>NOOOOO!!!!!!!
>IT'S MY RIGHT TO BURY SHIT IN THE GROUND LIKE A NIGGER!!!!!
>YOU CAN'T RESTRICT MY ABILITY TO DO THAT!!!!!!!

>> No.50422290

>>50421333
Wait till you hear what happens to windmills


Yes, landfill how do you know

>> No.50422342

>>50422131
asbestos was safe to use for decades before they acknowledged the dangerous effects, they are now countless stories you can easily find on the internet of that disaster

the problem with asbestos is not that it is chemically toxic like say lead or cyanide is, for the chemical structure of asbestos is basically sand
however it very specific shape is the problem, the smallest particles it is made up off are nano needles long and very narrow structures of a chemical inert substance
if you inhale them they pierce your lung membranes and cause permanent inflammation that will eventual result in the loss of the ability to transport air between your lungs and your bloodvessels

now take solar panels its highly order silicon products, as long as its in its housing no problem
but when the solar panel is broken the silicon is exposed and begins to crumble, this again produces chemical inert nano needles just like asbestos, it'll take years before they acknowledge the danger just like with every other industrial pollutant
remember when they used to laugh at people telling you the non sticky frying pans were dangerous

you always have people like retard over here >>50422160 that have to wait until msm tells it them before they believe anything, but remember that autists on 4chan told you this years ahead of the normiesphere

>> No.50422380 [DELETED] 

>>50422220
Ah yes, another ponzi scheme.

>> No.50422396

>>50422342
asbestos is harmful because it's friable you stupid fucking nigger retard. solar panels aren't friable.

>> No.50422452

>>50422396
the exposed solar panels do the same, takes more time but when left to rot in a dump it will happen
remember this post in 10 years when they will admit to it

>> No.50422559

>>50422452
look at asbestos under a microscope. it's fibrous in nature. look at a solar panel under a microscope. it's not fibrous in nature. unless you're pulverizing a solar panel into a literal fine dust, you will never risk silicosis. you are wrong and a complete retard.

>> No.50422844 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
Yes. Stop producing shit and stop consooming shit

>> No.50422946

>>50421895
No one gives a shit about the environment. This new age global warming save the planet bullshit is just designed to cuck White countries and send our industry overseas. Like every political moment these days its all based in Eurocide.

>> No.50423007 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
going back to society before the industrial revolution yes but none of the bug-eaters and pod-livers want to hear that

modern world is cancer, I just want to farm or hunt with my tribe

>> No.50423019 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
Strong nationalist government. End gibs to 3rd world shitholes. Promote localism and permaculture. Deport foreign invaders. Run the jews and liberals out of town.

>> No.50423022

>>50421634
Unironically true, we are just meat

>> No.50423049

>>50421356
The fact that every """green""" anti-nuclear org either gets donatons from major oil firms or refuses to disclose its donors should tell you all you need to know.

>> No.50423083

>>50421333
they'll ship it to a landfill in India, the globalist solution for everything.

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>>50421333
One word:
>graphene

>> No.50423691

>>50421356
nuclear fusion, yes

>> No.50423914

>>50421333
The panels have an industrial guarantee of 25+ years to loose 20% of their efficiency, but really they can go on for much longer. The cost of waste is null compared to the co2 saved from their production. The earth is slowly being drained of Si and every other material required to produce the electrical charge. I don't know about the US, but in the EU there are companies buying destroyed(broken/spent/malfunctioned) panels and harvesting Si to sell to manufactureres. Maybe just a burger issue?

>> No.50424099 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
yeah, killing all the non-white parasites should do the job

>> No.50424168

>>50421333
Yeah they're fucking terrible
Not only are they made with chemicals horrible for the environment during manufacture and eventual disposal, but they also require battery backup systems that are even worse and need to be replaced every 20-30 years

Nuclear is not as perfect as people think it is though, fusion would be but we still have no idea how to do it cold and net energy positive and/or without the weight of the sun
At the moment most nuclear plants need constant electrical monitoring to not turn into a billowing cloud of radiation unless the "perfect" malfunction circumstances happen to happen like at 3 mile island
Thorium would also supposedly be good but I'm sus of it because it seems kinda like a cult and they don't have a working prototype either.

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>>50421341
Yes and I have a book for you to read

>> No.50425719

>>50421634
>KNEEL. SUBMISSION IS DIVINE.
I see you haven't been reading the New Testament

>> No.50426028

>>50425719
>not worshipping mammon on a business and finance board
N G M I

>> No.50426194

>>50421333
That's why you make it the law that they must be recycled, like they do for batteries that contain many of the same elements.

>> No.50426291

>>50422946
Well it's working, Europe is definitely being cided by "freak" heat waves that happen every other year.

>> No.50427026

>>50426194
>recycled
i would love to see rising prices of those

>> No.50427040

>>50421895
>Nothing will happen until you force nations like China and India and Africans
I can't believe you 1st worlders are really trying to blame we 3rd worlders on this. You pollute 10x more per capita than any of us, and you have been doing this for centuries. Of course you need to do your part before us.

>> No.50427141

>>50427026
>recycling fee: $30

wow. that was hard.

>> No.50427282

>>50427141
>$30
well, it is more than $0 isn't it?
thank you by the way

>> No.50429028 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
Abject poverty for everyone or mass killing. Agriculturally-derived ocean pollutants by themselves spell doom for the current population numbers of the planet.

>> No.50429547

>>50421333
Theres about 1.5 ounces of silver in each panel. Pmg bros are unironically right about silver being undervalued since all the green tech is just thrown in landfills that silver is lost.

>> No.50430687

>>50422020
What you say is partially true. I work for a start up in that field and work with people in the waste business. Windmills are a recycling nightmare. The blades are made from composites, layered fibreglass steel and resin. It does degrade when pyrolysed, fibres come off semi clean, the residual oils and gasses are toxic and barely re useable. Let alone taking in transport, decomissioning, lubricating oil, tons of concrete for foundation. We even got requests from market leaders trying to figure out how to solve their waste problem. The whole recycling industry is 90% about keeping stuff IN circulation. Compounding plastics with additives and other shit. The whole market is becoming increasingly more complex because everyone mixes shit with more garbage and nobody ACTUALLY measures stuff like this. There is a mega push for having a mandatory minimum percentage recyclate in all products. And for the panels, they use quartz, look up what is a byproduct of quartz mining and what the ratio usefull to useless dug up is.

Similar story with electrifying heat demand absolutely bonkers
Hydrogen is still a pipedream
For every kw renewable variable you need similar capacity fast on switching gas or similar.
At first the idea was a healthy mix of different sources. Now it has become a tool for pushing their ideology. And its not looking too well

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>>50421333
>they've been lying on a massive scale and selling you bullshit
many such cases

>> No.50430768 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
Stop importing the third world into nice countries and let them die off by the billions.

>> No.50430773 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
You idiot, climate change is NOT an apocalyptic situation. You've been psy-op'd.

>> No.50430796

not to mention the creation of the panels is terrible for the environment too. rare earth metals are almost exclusively mined in china and their refinement releases tonnes of polution

but hey, I have solar cuz at least I don't have to pay the energy companies a dime. totally off grid

>> No.50430798 [DELETED] 

>>50421657
Except that's a lie and there is no such thing as resource scarcity or climate change driven by the burning of "fossil fuels" which don't exist because hydrocarbons are a continuously replenished resource that form in the mantle.

>> No.50430820 [DELETED] 

>>50430798
delete this post

>> No.50430821

>>50422020
Wind power is already extremely unreliable and inefficient. If you add in the energy required to recycle blades it becomes straight up catabolic.

>> No.50430859 [DELETED] 

>>50427040
Shut the fuck up, darkie. We didn't shit up your Ganges river.

>> No.50430913

>>50430687
"Healthy mix" was always such bullshit. Nobody who knows how complicated electric grids are would ever want a "mix" that isn't 80% baseload generation and 40% variable (like natgas). Oh yeah, it's not hard enough to match generation to demand when everyone's constantly turning shit on and off, lets also fuck with the generation side by letting clouds and the wind get involved.

>> No.50430934 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
Nuclear

>> No.50430969 [DELETED] 

>>50430934
Jewish dead end. Torsion physics is where the big brains are at.

>> No.50431029

>>50430859
Neo Nazi white supremacists like you just want to kill everyone who isn't white on this earth and then afterwards shoot yourselves. Every Nazi I talked to wanted to die in battle. Live by shedding blood and die by shedding blood. This thread ain't even for you btw. This is a thread for people who want to live instead of have fun in world war 3 through destruction.

Btw a nuclear holocaust would destroy the environment by blocking out the sun and causing an ice age if enough nukes and shot off. That's what will happen if you try to mess with India after India has stockpiled more nukes. Bitch

>> No.50431087 [DELETED] 

>>50430768
If rather destroy the first world than stop importing third worlders. I hope you die in a ditch.

>> No.50431100

>>50431029
Bro just buy a toilet, we're begging you. Join us with our 19th century hygiene standards.

>> No.50431105 [DELETED] 

>>50424099
Just try it. Talking tough won't do the job. You have to grab your gun and come for me you murdering subhuman

>> No.50431113 [DELETED] 

>>50431087
Go shit in a street you nigger

>> No.50431129 [DELETED] 

>>50423019
Fuck your nationalism you fucking subhuman. Remember what you did to the Jews you literal drooling retard. We'll exterminate you if you try it again. Go ahead and try. Israel has nukes.

>> No.50431157 [DELETED] 

>>50431100
>>50431113
Go extinct you honkey cretin. I will never move out of your fucking country and neither will any of my descendents.
NON STOP IMMIGRATION. Relentless, ruthless, endless immigration till you fucking get replaced. It's better to destroy the entire planet and cover it in ashes than to let you psychopaths have a pale skinned ethnostate in the western world. Move to eastern european shitholes like Poland or Russia you chuds.

>> No.50431201 [DELETED] 

>>50430768
>He thinks Africa wastes resources

They recycle a lot of waste we give them.

>> No.50431204

You can't bury the truth

>> No.50431210 [DELETED] 

>>50431201
Africa gets colonized by everyone else cuz the dumb niggers don't know what to do with all their own resources.

>> No.50431236

>>50421333
Amerimutt problems

>> No.50431249

>>50421333
They last 30 years, retard.

>> No.50431275

>>50421356
Only in the sense that nuking humanity off the face of the planet would allow Earth to heal.

>> No.50431290

>>50422559
based, thanks for calling out retards.

>> No.50431329 [DELETED] 

>>50431157
So much work just for me to hide your posts and sage this thread.

>> No.50431334

>>50431157
You do realise that the country you're immigrating is just gonna become as shit as the country you left given enough time and immigration right?

>> No.50431338 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
Yes.
Depopulation
And plant trees, guerilla planting.

Every environmental scheme is filled with lies.
All teslas do is export the smoke stake from the muffler to the power station.
Nuclear is forever waste.
And absolutely everything we consume is dependent on hydrocarbons.
Its all lies.

>> No.50431356

Fuck just noticed
1 post by this ID

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>>50427040

>> No.50431446
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When I first saw this I thought that was a pic from Riven Sequel to Myst, and I got a little excited because two of my favorite autistic pastimes converged for a bit. Classic retardily hard point and click puzzle games and looking at beautiful men with bewbs on /biz/, but alas it's just fake and gay solar panels.

>> No.50431480 [DELETED] 

>>50421341
Geo-thermal, hydro (dam + wave) and hopefully within the next 20 years, cold fusion.

>> No.50431516

>>50421333
Yeah and people throw them out for no reason. I picked up 10 commercial 350watt panels and set up my own system. Less than 5 yo. These things are fucking everywhere and it only takes high school physics knowledge to design your own system. Anyone can and should do it.

>> No.50431583

>>50431249
Here in Australia the government throws so much money at PV schemes coomsoomers change them every couple of years. I don't know why someone hasn't made a business of collecting, testing and setting up a solar farm of used panels and inverters. I've wondered what the tarrif system is like. Probs need some elec cunt to sign off. I've probably seen about 10kw dumped over the past year and I'm not even looking.

>> No.50431585

>>50431446
have you read the Myst book trilogy? surprisingly good

>> No.50431689

>>50430913
Well to be fair weather has a huge effect on power consumption too, there a synonymous and antisynonymous effects. More clouds = less air con (in tropical and subtropical climates), more clouds = less public transport (people drive there cars instead of getting the train). At the end of the day in commercial areas people work when the sun is shining. How would Pvs not balance this at least a bit.

>> No.50431792

Do you also get irate at the environmental damage of mining coal? Or how aeroplanes and cars end up in similar graveyards? Or how vast swathes of forests get cleared to make way for cattle grazing fields?
You do actually care about the environment, right anon?

>> No.50431820

>>50431792
Some people just care about hypocrisy and that's ok. This is a pol thread afterall. But I at least gave a biz idea in an earlier post.

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>>50427040
>Of course you need to do your part before us
or you could do what we say or we fucking kill you
take your pick monkey

>> No.50431935

>>50431820
It's not hypocrisy. The 'green' options are by and large far less damaging over their lifetimes than their competitors. Nothing will ever be zero impact, but reducing the impact is still a worthwhile pursuit.

It's bizzarre, first of all the arguments revolved around how expensive this shit was and how they would never be a viable alternative, but now that costs have come down dramatically suddenly they aren't an environmentally sound enough option? The fuck?

>> No.50432005

>>50431935
Fair enough. I like it because I'm a fucking doomer and can now supply my family with power. They should start pitching to the right by appealing to their mistrust of the 'utility Jew'.

>> No.50432871

>>50421895
wind turbine design has been done by sub 80 iq engineering tourist, it had to be, smaller vertical farms can produce more power in the same space and be caged in to prevent hurting birds, also scalable to houses. The face we don't have those systems ready to go is mind bogglingly stupid.