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You mean the solar panel?

+ it is decentralized, cheap, low tech, low waste, easy to scale.



> decentralized

If you basically ignore that they are all built in China. I'd say that's the most centralized mainstream technology to generate electricity by far, it's all down to a single country. We could even say it's down to a single person even, the power being so vertical in China.

> easy to scale.

Well if you don't care about how you are going to pass the winter maybe.


> low waste

Did I miss some big news about easy recycling solar panels?


Solar waste is similar to Nuclear per energy created:

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S09596526220213...

Much lower than fossils. Magnitudes lower than municipal waste or other e-waste.

From https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262...


Thanks, TIL.




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