[imardmd1]

I worked at inventing sputtered thin film cadmium silicon diarsenide back in the late ‘70s. recovering the elements in thin films and conductors, and recycling the metals to make new solar cells ought not to be rocket science. The substrates and structural frames ought not to be dangerous. Somebody is determined to chicken-little this issue and terrorize chemical ignoramuses here.

[grey_whiskers]

Animals, God's animals
Don't go away, don't go
Flowers, my flowers
Don't go away, don't go
The sea has cobalt, it's full of mercury
Too many fumes in our oxygen
All the smog now is choking you and me
Good Lord, where is it gonna end?

Got to get it back, someday
Got to get it back, and soon now
For tomorrow maybe you and me
We're movin', we're movin', movin' to the Moon now
It's up to us to make a choice
We know what it's worth to save the Earth
Come raise your voice

Save the Earth! (save the Earth)
Save the Earth! (save the Earth)
See the evil problem around us

Save the Earth! (save the Earth)
Save the Earth! (save the Earth)
And the Solution: stop pollution

--"Save the Earth", song from Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster, 1971

[Fai Mao]

We just converted our house to solar. It makes sense here with 300+ days of sunshine and very high electric rates. If solar panels can be made to with stand the typhoons here then they should withstand a hurricane, or so I would think.

Chicken Little indeed.