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Re:Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash by seventytwo on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:08PM (#24253901)
Not the ones manufactured today, but the ones on the article are 30 or 40 years old, so many of those might have had leaded solder.
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Re:Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash by samatman on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:02PM (#24254845)
Which is good news, because thanks to the exponential growth of solar, panels manufactured in the bad old days may as well not exist.

The vast majority of solar panels were manufactured in the last ten years: they are largely free of toxic atoms, and built to a higher standard of power delivery and reliability.

In short, the article is clickbait.

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