Pettimore Delivers New Truth Bomb
Solar panels are not the solution they seem to be
A mere seven hours ago, John Lee Pettimore contributed again to the ongoing discussion about the undeniable destructiveness of solar/wind/battery.
800 sq. ft. of solar panels weigh 1 ton. 2.5 lbs per sq. ft. 40-340 watt panels is what's needed to power a typical family home. This depends on sun zone, amount of snow cover etc. Approximate cost $10,000 dollars for panels. 10K divided by 20 yrs. = $500 per year.
There are approximately 140 million housing units in the United States. 112,000,000,000 sq. ft. of solar panels would be needed to power just the homes, excluding all industry. That’s 4017.44 sq. miles of panels. How much mining/manufacturing do we have to do to make that amount of solar panels?
280,000,000,000 lbs or 140,000,000 tons. So we know in order to make one ton (t) MG-Si (Kato, et. al) (solar wafers for solar panels) it takes 2.4 tons of quartz, 550 kg of coal, 200kg oil coke, 600kg charcoal and 300 kg of woodchips. This excludes glass, plastic, copper and aluminum.
350,000,000 tons of quartz, 7,574,000 tons of coal, 2,800,000 tons of oil coke, 82,600,000 tons charcoal, and 4,060,000 tons of woodchips.
So we know the industrial sector is the greatest energy end-user in the United States, reaching a consumption of some 26.9 quadrillion British thermal units in 2021.
So how much mining would we need to do for solar panels to cover the industrial sector? The amounts are staggering.
And in the end what do we do with all these solar panels? People will try and tell you recycle. Nonsense, as long as its cheaper to bury them, which it is, that's exactly what will happen.
But the toxic nature of solar panels makes their environmental impacts worse than just the quantity of waste. So now what?
We are headed into an ecological nightmare all in the name of so called #GreenEnergy