Reality of Solar Panels: Not Healthy

Solar energy advocates see cheap electricity with rose-colored glasses missing reality

11-27-19, Many who are advocates of solar panels for self sufficiency and saving on their power bills may also believe they're helping to safeguard the planet from global warming Armageddon by reducing a carbon footprint from fossil fuels - but they're misled. Solar power may not produce greenhouse gases while consumers use it, but it does release harmful chemicals during production and disposal.

We now know that solar panels generate “tons of toxic waste.” A short list follows:

1. Maintenance is required and maintenance and replacement
2. Solar farms and solar panels are/were heavily subsidized by governments. Obama's subsidies have stopped - Solyndra went bankrupt and left taxpayers holding the bag for $535 million in federal loans. 
3. Producing crystalline silicon from silicon results in a lot of input loss. “Sawing c-Si into the thin wafers used in panels creates a significant amount of waste silicon dust, up to 50 percent of which is lost in the air and water used to rinse the wafers. The process of making crystalline silicon from silicon is also inefficient; as much as 80 percent of the raw silicon is lost in the process. 
4. Dr. David Nguyen, a cancer biologist, remarked, “The toxic chemicals in solar panels include cadmium telluride, copper indium selenide, cadmium gallium (di)selenide, copper indium gallium (di)selenide, hexafluoroethane, lead, and polyvinyl fluoride. Additionally, silicon tetrachloride, a byproduct of producing crystalline silicon, is highly toxic.”

A study estimates that “photovoltaics had spread about 11,000 tons of lead and about 800 tons of cadmium” into the ecosystem. EPA has classified cadmium as a Group B1, probable human carcinogen.
There are no salvageable parts on a solar panel so it must be decomposed, and the chemicals disposed of properly.  According to Deutsche Welle, Sulphur hexafluoride, a greenhouse gas released during solar panel production, is 22,800 times more potent than CO2. [..snip]
In Vienna on Dec 9, 2019, prompted by climate change activists and U.N. climate change propaganda organizations, students and parents in Fairfax County are organizing a climate strike calling for a Green New Deal.
Considering all the toxicity in the production and recycling of solar panels, how is that net-zero carbon working out? Electric school buses get their electricity from fossil fuels, natural gas, hydro, and nuclear power simply because 0.02 percent is not enough electricity generated by solar power for our huge economy. ​More here

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