You are being lied to about Solar power.
From X user JohnLeePettimore:
The consumption of material resources using the photovoltaic technology is at least 64 times that of nuclear energy. For the production of the solar-grade silicon for one square meter of panel area it requires 3.5 kg of concentrated hydrochloric acid.
The weight of concrete, steel and chemicals used, such as acids/ bases, etchants, elemental gases, dopants, photolithographic chemicals etc. are never included. PV technology is more than 7 times more labor intensive than other energy sources. They never include disposing of the worn out panels, recycling copper wiring etc. after solar farms have reached end of life.
So when they tell you solar makes back the energy used to build and maintain them in X amount of time, they are actually lying to you.
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If solar is so good the supporters need to install on their residence and disconnect from the grid. For commercial operations like the much ballyhooed ai data centers they should do the same. But no, they want taxpayers to subsidize them and they want the utilities to be forced to take the small amount of electricity they they don’t use when their consumption is near zero at the faciiity. But the utility has issue with the quality of the power, specifically the inverter conversion to line voltage and cycles to match the utilities local distribution system. Tye large commercial solar plants are a whole other ballgame, with power quality an issue; the cost and subsidies grow to an unfathomable amount. Then we have the land waste issue as these plants have no other use. But what about the life of solar? The cheap panels fail as frequently as the installation/sales company goes out of business. The commercial plants are not demonstrating anything near the advertised lifetime.
The overall cost to benefit analysis is why the large power users are not putting solar on their facilities. The technology has been around for a long time and has not overcome the practicality hurdle.
You like solar - then install it and pay an exorbitant price but don’t look to me to finance your poor decision!
One of the many lies about “greener, renewable, more efficient and affordable “ energy.