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Re:Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash by refurb on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:52PM (#24254291)
Anything organic.

Apply as much energy, heat and oxygen you want to mercury and it’s still mercury.

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Re:Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash by toast0 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @03:06PM (#24254410)
You can bombard it with neutrons to produce (radioactive) gold, though.

https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.60.473 (1941)

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Re:Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash by mensetmanusman on Sunday August 23, 2020 @03:28PM (#24254573)
Haha, was going to post this as well, but thought it was too snarky :)

So few people know that the alchemists ended up being correct. (they just didn’t have enough energy at their disposal!)

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Re:Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash by samatman on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:00PM (#24254818)
Hey, clean baseline energy and mercury upcycling in one nuclear power plant? What's not to love!
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