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I drove by this disaster a while ago, it looks apocalyptic. I do not think those can be recycled, they will just bury it in landfills and have cadmium telluride and lead leach from it in an environmentally friendly fashion.
They cut off all trees when building solar farms, even hundreds of years old oaks. Very green indeed. The retards who allow devastation of their inherited family farms get paid something like 600 per acre per year for this and it is 20-30 year contracts. Often contracts do not have clause for panel removal at the end of land lease. Neighbors are usually pissed off since land next to them is dead and may become toxic in future. Hopefully all subsidies are removed so we do not have to suffer this.
Each time, for me, the problem seems that I just don't use enough solar to get the economies of scale to amortize the fixed costs. I run about 8 kWh / day with most of it after the sun goes down.
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I did the math of Tesla solar panels. Cost is $17.4K after tax incentives. It would cover my monthly electricity bill of $230/mo on average. Add in a powerwall will increase the cost by $8k. Without the powerwall, it’s about 15% ROI. What am I missing?