http://www.businessinsider.com.au/solar-panel-makers-grappli…
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/11/14111…
http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/01/solar-panels-toxic-emiss…
no one will recycle the panels (due to newer technology in 30 years time), go into massive land fill, when cracks…… massive clean up required.
Many third world country just dump the waste into river…..
look at plastic, only 2% recycled?
look at CPU semiconductor
look at AA batteries/ car batteries (now we introducing big house hold battery)
Have we ever learnt from the past?
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Addition: 8 August 2015
This question was raised in the room full of expert in this field - of the life cycle cost and sustainability. The answer provided was full research required to proof that. No one doing that research as no one willing to fund it at the moment, definitely not from manufacturer and installer. Public perception is very good towards it. At least those experts never used other "bad" energy source to make solar energy look good.
I was reviewing a technical paper stated solar energy is the cheapest - based on the lateset news stated cheaper than coal. I asked the author to put reference of life cycle cost to proof its the cheapest in its whole life. One week later the sentence was removed.
There good points stated in this thread when comparing other souce of energy but still not answering the final impact of solar energy. One article event mention the solar farm reflection actually kill the bird fly past it (free bbq?)
Main thing of this post is to bring awareness to those intend to do good to the planet to question more. Is this the right technology?
Thank you everyone for contributing the ideas and good points.
Wind energy seems the go to me! 24/7 power
Household batteries could actually be a huge thing, since it helps flatten out the peaks for power stations so they don't have to constantly operate in anticipation of sudden peak loads.