Renewable works, people are just weird about it because of propaganda.
I have two 500W solar panels that I mostly bought for camping but are hooked up to my house because why not. They average ~5kWh a day over the year which is about a gallon of gas a week (~34kWh). Every gallon of gas I’ve ever bought I’ve set on fire using it and have to buy another one.
The panels will be good for a few decades, though eventually it will take them 8 or more days to generate “a gallon of gas worth of electricity”, and at that point they’re mostly aluminum, glass, and silicon, which are all extremely recyclable. The degradation of solar panels is because that the shapes they need to be in to harvest sunlight get bent out of shape over time. They don’t become worthless afterward.
If you put that gallon in a generator (car not much different), you’d get 8.5kwh electricity out of it. It would cost you $4. or $16 for the same power per week. $832/year.
Just change the name to “cheap energy”
Renewable works, people are just weird about it because of propaganda.
I have two 500W solar panels that I mostly bought for camping but are hooked up to my house because why not. They average ~5kWh a day over the year which is about a gallon of gas a week (~34kWh). Every gallon of gas I’ve ever bought I’ve set on fire using it and have to buy another one.
The panels will be good for a few decades, though eventually it will take them 8 or more days to generate “a gallon of gas worth of electricity”, and at that point they’re mostly aluminum, glass, and silicon, which are all extremely recyclable. The degradation of solar panels is because that the shapes they need to be in to harvest sunlight get bent out of shape over time. They don’t become worthless afterward.
If you put that gallon in a generator (car not much different), you’d get 8.5kwh electricity out of it. It would cost you $4. or $16 for the same power per week. $832/year.