Used Solar Panels Are Powering the Developing World – solar panels don’t lose that much efficiency over time, just more than is acceptable for developed countries raised on consumerist propaganda
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sunlight beats down on a graveyard for dead solar panels in Yuma, Arizona, hundreds stacked in neat piles, waiting for their next life.
Workers maneuver the stacks into the sprawling 75,000 square foot facility on forklifts, then gently lift each out by hand to begin separating by brand and model.
By 2050, solar waste will total some 78 million tons globally, said Mool Gupta, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Virginia.
Solarcycle, a startup based in Odessa, Texas, raised $30 million earlier this year, led by Fifth Wall, an asset manager focused on building decarbonization.
Groppo estimates that in 20 years people will mine landfills to recover valuable materials in the junked panels, but “it makes an awful lot more sense for us to separate them now.”
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For whoever wrote the bot, that's pretty legit. I could quibble about the details, but that's a solid synopsis. Thanks for putting in the effort for the lemmy community :)
Thanks for the kind words, glad my bot is of use! It sometimes has small hiccups (and once it managed to come up with a summary that didn't help at all), but overall I'm happy with the content it produces.
I am guessing i just have the bot blocked, i see your reply as a second level comment but nothing above it. I figured a reply to a blocked comment would not appear.
Probably :)
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