[image] Long live the Sun The case for solar power This week will see a steady stream of advocacy for nuclear power. Many advocates are well-informed. But nuclear has already lost to solar photovoltaic power. Why are solar and nuclear on such different tr…

We can’t. Mostly because the Chinese industry is less regulated and can respond to booms in demand without investing in things like silicon tetrachloride recycling. This isn’t normally a problem because it’s profitable to reuse the silicon tetrachloride generated, but when you need to expand product…

But chinese export price is at cost and the gov pays the exporter a 20% margin and thats their profit. Gov gets the foreign dollars, local guy gets the Yuan How to compete with that

How come the document mentions coal extraction for coal plant( obviously) but fails to mention it for solar panels? Silicon wafers/manufacturing them for electronics and solar panels An excerpt from Our Web of Inconvenient Truths: Semiconductors To process and store data and provide …

Perhaps like the raw materials for drug manufacturing, which are so dirty the west is happy china makes them and solar panels. Are Solar Panels Toxic or Bad For the Environment? | EnergySage Solar panels produce renewable energy, but the manufacturing process uses some chemicals that ca…

Perhaps? Of course manufacturing processes which create toxic waste are shifted from countries with strict regulations to countries where regulations are more lax.

[image] MAK: . Mostly because the Chinese industry is less regulated and can respond to booms in demand without investing in things like silicon tetrachloride recycling. This isn’t normally a problem because it’s profitable to reuse the silicon tetrachloride generated, but when you need to expan…

What facts do you want verified? There’s multiple reports from your beloved Bloomberg about the use of forced labor in Chinese solar panel manufacturing plants if you want to start there. There’s hundreds of reports of silicon tetrachloride poisoning in Chinese waterways, I don’t really believe that…

As long as PV manufacture/disposal produces no more pollution than hydrocarbon extraction/waste disposal, they are still less polluting than burning hydrocarbons. Where is the data showing otherwise (data, not stories)? And by the way, include pumping toxic water into the American groundwater syste…

So cheap Chinese labor and pollution in Chinese waterways is a reason not to use solar energy? What about the PV panels produced in Germany, Korea and other countries?

No, energy storage constraints are the reason not to use solar technology. Somebody brought up lifecycle costs of solar and the response was to make them in America. That eliminates the argument that solar is now cheap enough to be a large part of our energy infrastructure. That claim was premature …

Long live the Sun - Why Solar Power will beat Nuclear - #51 by Kennebec_Captain - Scuttlebutt

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