Thread by @JohnLeePettim13

800 sq. ft. of solar panels weigh 1 ton. 2.5 lbs per sq. ft. 40-340 watt panels is what's needed to power a typical family home. This depends on sun zone, amount of snow cover etc. Approx. cost $10,000 dollars for panels. 10K divided by 20 yrs.=$500 per yr. #GreenEnergy 🧵

There is approx. 140 million housing units in the United States. 112000000000 sq. ft. of solar panels would be needed to power just the homes excluding all industry. 4017.44 sq. miles of panels. How much mining/manufacturing do we have to do to make that amount of solar panels?

280000000000 lbs or 140000000 tons. So we know in order to make one ton (t) MG-Si (Kato, et. al) (solar wafers for solar panels) it takes 2.4 tons of quartz, 550 kg of coal, 200kg oil coke, 600kg charcoal and 300 kg of woodchips. This excludes glass, plastic, copper and aluminum.

350000000 tons of quartz, 7574000 tons of coal, 2800000 tons of oil coke, 82600000 tons charcoal, and 4060000 tons of woodchips.

So we know the industrial sector is the greatest energy end-user in the United States, reaching a consumption of some 26.9 quadrillion British thermal units in 2021.

So how much mining would we need to do for solar panels to cover the industrial sector? The amounts are staggering.

And in the end what do we do with all these solar panels? People will try and tell you recycle. Nonsense, as long as its cheaper to bury them, which it is than to recycle that's exactly what will happen.

But the toxic nature of solar panels makes their environmental impacts worse than just the quantity of waste. So now what? We are headed into an ecological nightmare all in the name of so called #GreenEnergy

How do we make solar panels. Why do we burn coal and trees to make solar panels? BurningCoalTreesToMakeSolarPanels.pdf (hiddenhistorycenter.org)