Oh. Oh. It appears that those solar cells on which we bet the atmosphere...

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24. Um, um, um...making worthless toxic junk over and over and over because it can't be manufactured...

...correctly the first time is a pretty bad environmental strategy.

The alleged "payback time" in what is called in the scientific literature as "life cycle analysis" has been often grotesquely misrepresented. Any infrastructure that fails before reaching the alleged "payback time" represents environmental destruction, although solar advocates are pretty glib when they demonstrate how shallow their environmentalism actually is.

If there are enforceable warranties...and if you make a claim that these warranties justify the existence of the industry you are merely stating what I have known for many years: That the solar industry has nothing at all to do with concern for the environment and everything to do with people hearing what they want to hear so as to avoid reality, a point that the general set of responses to this post makes very, very, very, very, very, very clear.

The unsustainable solar industry has a very questionable toxicological impact, and the fact that your solar installer may come back in his big carbon dioxide and PAH spewing diesel truck to replace the toxic junk, throwing the cadmium laced crap to be replaced in a landfill, does not wash away the concern of people called "environmentalists."