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Re:Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash by throwawaysea on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:36PM (#24254150)
Wind turbines also suffer from a similar problem. After some number of years, they just get landfilled. See https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb... or https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-02-06/wind-turbi... for more on that.

Similar concerns were raised around solar panels by Michael Moore in a recent documentary, which claimed that the total lifetime cost of a solar-powered society makes these alternative green technologies not really green. See https://medium.com/@tejasgole67/is-michael-moore-right-8603f... and https://medium.com/@tejasgole67/is-michael-moore-right-part-... for a discussion around that.

Ultimately there may be no getting around the fact that we simply need to reduce demand. And reducing demand, if we want to preserve our quality of life, likely means population control.

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Re:Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash by acidburnNSA on Sunday August 23, 2020 @05:13PM (#24255341)
The Moore Documentary got lots of flack but does raise some pretty good points, particularly about combustion of biofuel.

You can see the whole thing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE

I disagree with the movie's conclusion, which seems identical to yours. We can use tech to keep quality of life high by using responsible and sustainable energy systems like nuclear/wind/solar/hydro.

PoTH hardly even mentioned nuclear, which tears their whole "we must depopulate" narrative apart easily.

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