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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
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May 19, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
It's now clear that it wasn't efficiency that made solar panels cheap. It was coal, China's heavy subsidies, & "slave" labor

- Panel efficiency grew just 3%

- China & solar industry contradicts itself on forced labor

- U.S. & E.U. may ban China solar

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/china-made-s…
Solar panels degrade 2x faster than experts thought, new industry report finds

Report comes on heels of separate report which found rising *failure* rate

Could it be that solar panels are too flimsy & fragile to power major economies?

🧐

pv-tech.org/built-solar-as…
“1 in 3 manufacturers experienced safety failures relating to junction box defects, an increase from 1 in 5 last year… the majority of failures were prior to testing, straight from the box … + an increase in failure rate within the bills of material”

pv-tech.org/solar-module-f…
It’s almost as though solar panels aren’t really a primary energy at all and more akin to a disposable consumer product…

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
… to be dumped, in the future, on poor African nations…

nytimes.com/2019/05/12/cli…
“Solar panels have a lifespan of 20 to 30 years. Because it's not easy to dispose of the toxic metals inside the solar cells — there's an overall lack of oversight — it is often cheaper to discard them in landfills or send them to developing countries”

discovermagazine.com/environment/so…
Its so odd that the environmental justice movement is silent about toxic solar panel waste being dumped on poor nations, not to mention the forced labor used to make them

Maybe that’s because they have more urgent priorities, like killing nuclear plants?

thehill.com/policy/energy-…
Where are @GretaThunberg & @AOC when you need them?

Oh, right

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
It’s weird how the Jeff Bezos-owned @washingtonpost hasn’t covered the environmental impacts of toxic solar panel waste

Oh, right

entrepreneur.com/article/369901
I’m sure @JeffBezos will lead by example and make sure his rocket into space is powered by solar panels

cnn.com/2021/06/07/tec…

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Feb 5
The CIA has offered employees eight months pay and benefits to leave. Great start. After that, Director @JohnRatcliffe can clean house. The CIA illegally spied on the 2016 Trump campaign, hid Covid's origins, and spread disinformation about the Hunter Biden laptop. Image
The U.S. Intelligence Community said in January 2017 that Russia favored Trump as president. It didn't. The CIA "cooked the intelligence" to hide that Vladamir Putin wanted Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, as president.

The CIA is still hiding documents that incriminate the Intelligence Community for illegal spying and election interference:

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Feb 4
Forty-three paragraphs into the NYT's latest hit piece on @elonmusk, the six (!) by-lined reporters reveal that the federal government lost $236 billion to apparent fraud ("improper payments") in 2023 alone. Maybe this isn't the dunk you guys thought it was? Image
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"How could anyone in the federal government possibly be against saving taxpayers $236 billion lost annually to fraud?"
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Jan 29
The media said "gender affirming care" relied on good science. It didn't. The internal files of trans medical group WPATH proved that. And now, Trump's ban on government support for chemical & surgical mutilation of children recognizes that WPATH is junk science. Awesome. Image
"Ending Reliance on Junk Science. The harm done to children by chemical & surgical mutilation cloaks itself in medical necessity, spurred by guidance from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which lacks scientific integrity"
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Files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical.

American Medical Association, The Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and thousands of doctors worldwide rely on WPATH. It is considered the leading global authority on gender medicine.

And yet WPATH’s internal files, which include written discussions and a video, reveal that its members know they are creating victims and not getting “informed consent.”

Victims include a 10-year-old girl, a 13-year-old developmentally delayed adolescent, and individuals suffering from schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses.

The injuries described in the WPATH Files include sterilization, loss of sexual function, liver tumors, and death.

WPATH members indicate repeatedly that they know that many children and their parents don’t understand the effects that puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries will have on their bodies. And yet, they continue to perform and advocate for gender medicine.

The WPATH Files prove that gender medicine is comprised of unregulated and pseudoscientific experiments on children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults. It will go down as one of the worst medical scandals in history.
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Jan 28
The office of Calif. Gov. @GavinNewsom said that none of the $50M in taxpayer money would be used to protect criminals from deportation. But then, when pressed, the "officials could not make the guarantee." Nor could they say how they'd prevent the money from being abused. Image
One of the main reasons the LA fires became unnecessarily catastrophic is because @GavinNewsom and @MayorOfLA defunded fire prevention and fire fighting. They instead spent hundreds of millions to increase homelessness, who cause over half of all LA fires
@GavinNewsom @MayorOfLA .@GavinNewsom & @MayorOfLA defunded firefighting because they are obsessed with their own careers and backed by an anti-civilization political party. And now, instead of dealing with all of the catastrophes across California, waiting to happen, they're fighting Trump.
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Jan 20
Biden pardoned Fauci. He says it’s not an admission of guilt. But if Fauci were innocent, no pardon would be needed. The evidence suggests Fauci helped create the Covid pandemic, and then covered it up. The investigation must go forward. All Covid & Fauci Files must be released.
Fauci led an aggressive disinformation effort to discredit the lab leak hypothesis. If the Covid virus didn’t escape from the lab, why did he deliberately spread false or misleading information about it? Why did he repeatedly interfere in the investigation?
Fauci played the media like a fiddle. They called the lab lead a “conspiracy theory.” Then, documents showed that Fauci’s main allies had sought to insert a furin cleavage site in the exact place where it exists on the Covid virus. Reason #7,969 for why the legacy media is dead.
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Jan 17
Strong words from LA fire fighters to the chief: "[I]f you had done things right... fatalities would have been reduced, property would have been saved....the preventive systems... were nonexistent... We attribute this to... lack of experience, arrogance, inability to lead..."
Another good scoop by @RichMcHugh @NewsNation

Excellent video segment too:

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