{"id":623,"date":"2019-06-03T11:44:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T06:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dchandra.geosyndicate.com\/news\/?p=623"},"modified":"2019-06-03T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T06:14:21","slug":"now-the-solar-pv-ball-is-turning-in-the-opposite-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchandra.geosyndicate.com\/news\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Now the solar pv ball is turning in the opposite direction!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Worldwide there is\nalready 250 000 metric tons of solar panel waste and by the year 2050 this will\njump to 78 million tons. Don\u2019t have to believe this figure. You can work out\nthe figures by yourself or give it to any 10<sup>th<\/sup> standard kind as a\nsummer project and he will come out with this figure. We don\u2019t have to wait for\nthe International Renewable Energy Agency to publish this numbers. It is\nwritten black and white on all the walls of the countries. The market is\nflooded with cheap panels that works only for 5 years or less. The damaged\nsolar panels leach out toxic elements into the environment. There is no way to\nrecycle this waste\u2026\u2026if you want to recycle it then your GDP will touch rock\nbottom!!!! This has opened up new area of research \u2026\u2026how to dispose solar\nwaste!! Next to plastic solar panels is going to be a big issue to countries\nblindly promoting solar pv by compromising fertile food producing lands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the high\nenergy consumption and considerable CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions during its life\ncycle (see my post on 2 Feb 2019) solar PV (panels) is not a viable option for\nclimate change. In fact it is regarding the climate. Who is&nbsp; getting benefitted?? Of course the small\nscale ancillary industries in Europe (especially in Germany to certain extent\nUSA) that supply components to solar pv panels. The Chinese of course have\nfound easy way to manufacture (made in China) cheap solar panel. Both go hand\nin hand. Who are the sufferers?? India and other countries that blindly believe\nthat solar pv is a god sent energy to solve issues related to CO<sub>2<\/sub>\nemissions and related climate change. Countries talk (including India) about\nbig numbers\u2026..nothing less than Giga Watts. Those who talk about Giga watts\nhave no idea about these numbers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact people are ignorant\nabout geothermal power\u2026\u2026or they pretend to be. Countries with high geothermal\npotential too fall for solar pv. Surprising. It is not cost, it is not about\ntechnology but then \u2026\u2026..what makes them fall for this renewable that creates\nmore mess than other renewables like hydro and geothermal? Well it is the\nbusiness or trade politics. If the solar panels are not manufactured, the\nancillary industries will collapse\u2026\u2026throwing out millions jobless\u2026especially in\nthe developed countries. These countries at government level push solar pv by\ngiving a rosy picture. It looks perhaps, the entire climate change meetings by\ncountries have one common agenda\u2026\u2026use solar to combat climate change. Japan,\nthe country where climate change talks had started (Kyoto Protocol), recently warned\nthat the country will produce 800,000 tons of solar waste by 2040, and it can\u2019t\nyet handle those volumes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worldwide there is already 250 000 metric tons of solar panel waste and by the year 2050 this will jump to 78 million tons. Don\u2019t have to believe this figure. You can work out the figures by yourself or give it to any 10th standard kind as a summer project and he will come out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geothermal-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchandra.geosyndicate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchandra.geosyndicate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchandra.geosyndicate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchandra.geosyndicate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchandra.geosyndicate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dchandra.geosyndicate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/dchandra.geosyndicate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchandra.geosyndicate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchandra.geosyndicate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchandra.geosyndicate.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}