700,000 individual panels
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How many, otherwise vegetated, acreage do they cover? How much wildlife habitat is lost to Chinese silicon? How big is their virtue signally effort? Do they all drive EVs costing $50-60K. And why should we care?
The solar panel farm looks about 5x bigger than the main cluster of houses.
17 Recycling these used solar panels will be a major environmental disaster. But in the case of this community, it will be “NIMBY”, the rich white folk will shout!