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Zalatix

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3. Wait, do batteries and solar power panels generate mercury?

Reply to Gore1FL (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 22, 2011, 01:15 AM

Dec 2011

Are any of the pollutants generated by solar power/battery power airborne? Does it make it into streams? Poisoning crops and fish?

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The new EPA regulations and this persistent "cheap energy" meme... [View all] Zalatix Dec 2011 OP

Actually, energy is ridiculously cheap Gore1FL Dec 2011 #1

Wait, do batteries and solar power panels generate mercury? Zalatix Dec 2011 #3

yes Gore1FL Dec 2011 #4

The highest price: deaths of coal miners. eppur_se_muova Dec 2011 #2

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