(February 2, 2018 at 5:31 am)Khemikal Wrote:(February 2, 2018 at 5:28 am)shadow Wrote: What is dirty solar? Is this a serious problem?Holy shit yes. Dirty solar is solar made with innefficient coal power that dumps toxins into peoples drinking water and sources it's materials from hellish thrid world mines and forges...the end product being a panel that produces less and for less time..before becoming some of the most horrid environmental waste itself.
That's the kind of solar that the current global leaders produce..and they're successful because doing the above makes their solar comparatively cheaper than cleaner solar. The majority of the panels installed, worldwide...are of this variety.
But that goes for literally anything made in China... all the cheap clothes and consumer goods we buy. And coal more than anything, were we to continue to use that as a power source. Your issue is with cheap Chinese manufacturing, not the energy industry or any other.
And when you build a solar power plant, it produces electricity for decades. You dig coal out of the ground, you burn it, and then you need more coal. One has a fixed environmental cost, the other is constant. It's a massive difference.
