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Solar Panels Are Starting to Die. What Will We Do With The Megatons Of Toxic Trash?
American Experiment. ^ | August 27, 2020 | Isaac Orr

Posted on 09/01/2020 11:52:50 AM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 09/01/2020 11:52:50 AM PDT by george76
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“Gee,,,we never thought of that”


2 posted on 09/01/2020 11:54:02 AM PDT by digger48
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Send them to Greta Gurnberg’s house.


3 posted on 09/01/2020 11:55:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Send them to Greta Gurnberg’s house.


4 posted on 09/01/2020 11:55:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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I have friends who live in a nicer, much more upscale neighborhood than I do.

Their neighbor across the street just installed giant hulking solar panels on his roof.

You guessed it, his front yard is full of Democrat yard signs too.


5 posted on 09/01/2020 11:55:23 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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6 posted on 09/01/2020 11:56:53 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: digger48

Yes, they never thought through all of the impacts of rushing to solar and wind power.

I was talking to someone who wants to see major switches to electric cars. He said how electric cars are pollution free and how green we would be, if only we had millions of electric cars on the road.

I silenced him, by saying that, our power grid could not accomodate literally millions of electric cars being plugged in to recharge every night. I also pointed out that significant amounts of electricity needed to recharge electric cars would be generated in fossil fuel power plants.

He said, well, we would have to work through a transition period, then started talking about something else.


7 posted on 09/01/2020 11:57:57 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Throw them into a Hawaiian or Mexican volcano


8 posted on 09/01/2020 11:58:01 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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Given the cost of energy in California, I can see why some might opt for solar panels. But I've been seeing a few houses here in Central Texas with solar panels, and I wonder how well the panels can survive the freak hail storms that will pop up from time to time.

I understand there are areas of Texas where the hail can damage a roof, so I would imagine the solar panels wouldn't fair much better.

9 posted on 09/01/2020 11:59:32 AM PDT by CatOwner
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They can’t be recycled?..................


10 posted on 09/01/2020 12:00:06 PM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very)
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Is there a “law of unintentional consequence”, yes there is!


11 posted on 09/01/2020 12:00:09 PM PDT by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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Just pile them onto the discarded windmill vanes.




12 posted on 09/01/2020 12:00:11 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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Howls, Bruce. Howls of derisive laughter.


13 posted on 09/01/2020 12:00:13 PM PDT by dsc (We are competing against Soros money poured onto a hive mentality.)
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I also pointed out that significant amounts of electricity needed to recharge electric cars would be generated in fossil fuel power plants.

Not true. Electricity is an endless resource. It comes from the wall.

14 posted on 09/01/2020 12:00:42 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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Scoldylocks has been out of the news for awhile. She go back to school finally?


15 posted on 09/01/2020 12:00:50 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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DOH! Sort of like the composite windmills. Can’t do anything with them. Not to mention the nasties made when making all these earth saving products. They must have been invented on the Island of Moronica. Or perhaps Dumbassistan.


16 posted on 09/01/2020 12:00:54 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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I think nuclear power should be a major part of our energy future.

I know I’m in a minority thinking that way. Nuclear produces no greenhouse gases, but that doesn’t matter to the enviro extremists who make policy nowadays.

The fact is, there is no perfect zero emission, zero environmental impact form of energy anywhere. We can and should minimize environmental damage. But the enviro extremists take a concept of clean environment way too far.


17 posted on 09/01/2020 12:01:28 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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You should see the blank stares I get when I explain the fallacy of solar/wind power to my family.

I said, you do understand that since it’s overcast and the wind is not blowing, the only reason we have electricity is because there is a turbine spinning somewhere right now? And that turbine is almost certainly powered by coal, gas, or nuclear energy?

Crickets. I hope it’s sinking in.


18 posted on 09/01/2020 12:01:40 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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“Throw them into a Hawaiian or Mexican volcano”

Greentards? A bold idea, but it sounds promising.


19 posted on 09/01/2020 12:01:48 PM PDT by dsc (We are competing against Soros money poured onto a hive mentality.)
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Let’s not even consider the batteries that also die with even greater frequency than the solar panels!

Anyone remember when the greenies got us to switch from paper to plastic? From incandescent bulbs to mercury laced fluorescent ones? From capitalism to communism?!


20 posted on 09/01/2020 12:02:15 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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