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Originally Posted by ITD
You are making me defend solar here, lol. But I say hogwash. The panels are no more dangerous than disposing of the billions of windows, mirrors and other similar things. You can make that argument for just about every human product if you try. Many of those are bogus claims too.
The real argument against solar is that when you need it the most it's not there, the sun is set or behind the clouds or so low on the horizon the output is negligible. Useful hours of solar power here are 5.33 peak solar hours in the summer, 3.66 peak solar hours in the winter. Full sun days per year average about 90 per year. Average annual sunlight hours are 2,500. The number of hours in a year is about 8,760. So you need other power when the sun is down or not producing enough power, which is 6,260 hours per year, or more than 70% of the time, solar is useless at those times.
There's more, I could go on , but focus there, not on some dumb scare tactic about disposal that is irrelevant.
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I can assure you I didnt make it up, and its not about how dangerous it actually is, its about who will be the next person to make money off the working man.
Dead panels are already being classified as hazardous waste, not by me, by local and state governments. Look it up yourself.
And there are costs to dispose of them NOW. AND those costs are expected to rise dramatically. It is expected to be a big industry, so if you are looking to make some money on this matter, run with this one!
In the end, I have no personal investment either way, I dont have solar panels and dont really care if you get it, but it is not truly green and it will cost you money on the other end if you keep them long enough.
Now if you sell out before there are problems, or you bury them in your backyard and dont tell anyone, you can come out on the right side of this, just dont tell me about it and then say you are greening the planet, thats just BS ;-)
In truth you can probably get away with burying lots of stuff. And I'm sure some here have had family that just dumped their sewer into the lake and maybe even their trash. Thats reality.
People justify all kinds of things, and people absolutely convince themselves of nonsense, so if you want to believe getting rid of old solar panels will never be a problem, or you will just bury them in the ground, well then best of luck to you.
For a group thats seems to make lots of overtures about going green and being green, there are a whole lot of shallow and strange and self centered perspectives openly shared here. Its an interesting bunch to be sure.