09-02-2018, 02:37 PM
quote:What is the Big Island supposed to do over the years with the thousands of solar panels that break or malfunction? Send them to the dump? They are loaded with toxic chemicals. Not exactly what we want buried in a landfill.
Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge
The fact is that the earth will never run out of fossil fuels.
Even if true, for the sake of argument, Hawaii is better off with geothermal power, wind power, and even solar - - pv panels need only be shipped in once, not over & over & over...
Also, geothermal, wind turbines and solar do not release vast quanties of CO2 into the atmosphere as fossil fuels do, one of the main contributers to climate change. This view is supported by the US Navy, farmers, a member of Punaweb who worked at a national weapons lab, pretty much everyone except blond bimbo TelePrompTer readers, and their loyal audience.
At a White House meeting in June, President Trump reportedly told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that “I remember Pearl Harbor.”
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.
https://sciencing.com/toxic-chemicals-so...18393.html