According to this article in the Harvard Business Review, solar panels are not what I would call "renewable":
If we plot future installations according to a logistic growth curve capped at 700 GW by 2050 (NREL’s estimated ceiling for the U.S. residential market) alongside the early replacement curve, we see the volume of waste surpassing that of new installations by the year 2031. By 2035, discarded panels would outweigh new units sold by 2.56 times. In turn, this would catapult the LCOE (levelized cost of energy, a measure of the overall cost of an energy-producing asset over its lifetime) to four times the current projection. The economics of solar - so bright-seeming from the vantage point of 2021 - would darken quickly as the industry sinks under the weight of its own trash.
You can read the rest @
https://hbr.org/2021/06/the-dark-side-of-solar-power
The Green Raw Dealers are doing what all energy hucksters always have been doing - ignoring the cradle-to-grave costs of their technologies. When such costs ARE taken into account, most of the green stuff looks pretty crappy.
And when you look at the C-to-G costs of nuclear, it's a nightmare.
Update - 7/2/2021
Californians are learning the hard way that going "green" is not really a good idea:
Not only will this nonsense result in personal discomfort, the rising costs of energy will further deteriorate the US economy. China isn't participating in the Green Raw Deal, and in the coming years they will bury us.
What dumbass dreamed up this crap?
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