China's Tongwei Group Plans World's Biggest Solar-Cell Plant (5GW/yr)

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9. Really? I would guess that the unenlightened really have no idea about Chinese mining...

...practices, and further, that they couldn't care less about them. Actually, I'm not guessing, I know.

To a man, a woman, 100% of these people are clueless. To a man, to a woman, 100% of these people are unfamiliar with the contents of either the primary scientific literature or even monographs and textbooks.

The plant's scale, reported to be "the world's largest" by the OP also tells reams and reams about the grotesque failure of the solar industry, in as much as the plant will produce 5 "gigawatts" per year - typical of the lie that peak capacity has anything to do with energy production. In reality on planet earth, among scientifically informed people, the capacity utilization of a plant is what counts. For solar, in most places, this is roughly ten percent. This means the "world's largest plant" - assuredly a toxic nightmare - at 5 GW is the equivalent of building one small 500 MW gas plant per year.

Given that world release of dangerous deadly fossil fuel waste is at the highest level ever observed, this is clearly trivial.

Note that the solar cells will not shut a single gas plant, instead they will depend on gas plants to back them up, since they're not only toxic, but they are unreliable.

Moreover, the Chinese plant, not operating under the environmental restrictions of Western law, will serve to drive Western plants out of business, meaning the "world's largest plant" will simply replace the economic failures like Solyndra and other solar plants.

Unquestionably though, given the low educational level, lack of humanity, dreaminess, obliviousness and lack of true environmental concern given to the anti-nuke purveyors of this on going tragedy, there will indeed be lots of "huzzahs!" for this crap. This ignorance and indifference is why the rise in greenhouse gases is accelerating and not declining.

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