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Comment by Parrhesia on July 19, 2022 at 10:42am

Yep, they can virtue signal for "being green", but they don't want the toxic waste in their back yard.

"After more than two decades of incentivizing homeowners to install solar panels on their roof, California's landfills are starting to notice toxic waste from broken and discarded units people have thrown away.

Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reported that heavy metals like selenium and cadmium can pollute groundwater and are used to make all the panels people are now tossing in the garbage — a grim unintended consequence of renewable infrastructure, but hopefully one that can be mitigated.

"People just don’t realize that there are toxic materials in those electronics," Natalie Click, a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona, told the LA Times. "Once it gets crushed and put into the landfill, a lot of those toxic chemicals and materials are going to leak into your groundwater."

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Comment by cheeki kea on July 19, 2022 at 10:19am

Ha ha that's about right and these countries exporting " Green" energy to their far off distant 'neighbours' are going to be left with one hell of a lot of waste to get rid of at the end of their long and wasteful fantasy of stupidity.  https://www.straitstimes.com/business/economy/australia-fast-tracks...