[hinckley buzzard]

So who is going to pay for this service? I doubt it will pay for itself.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Didn’t a solar farm in the west just get hammered by a hail storm?

[Socon-Econ]

Here, “recycling” = costly waste disposal.

[V_TWIN]

[21twelve]

“Repurposing these means finding new uses for them, such as selling glass to companies that do sandblasting.”

I wonder how much energy is used to transform glass back into sand as opposed to just using sand in the first place?

[Cowgirl of Justice]

So, my power bill is approx $85-$145 depending on the season. I spoke to a homeowner nearby who got solar panels. They were $25k and the company financed them 0% interest for 10 years. She said they last 10 years and will then need to replace them. Her financed monthly amount is $208 per month - much more than my power bill.

Scratching my head at why...

[BitWielder1]

What's the energy cost, the monetary cost and the environmental cost of this recycling, compared to the amount of energy we got out of them?
Was it worth it?

[fini]

Wouldn’t be cheaper to grind up the panels into dust and separate by composition (glass in one pile, copper in another, etc...)?