People say solar panels don't produce carbon emissions, but they do.
The report from Environmental Progress points out a fatal flaw in the solar panel data all of this frenzied switch to renewables is based on: it's either industry sourced, not independantly verified, ORit just flat out DOESN'T EXIST. Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.
Chinese manufactured solar panels have taken over the field and we are still told that solar is much cleaner - even with the obvious drawbacks and limitations I've gone over here a million times - that any natural gas powered electricity source.
THERE IS NO CHINESE DATA IN THE SYSTEM. I think we all know how the Chinese came to be at the forefront of solar panel manufacturing - the same way they've done everything else.
The modelers are estimating the carbon emissions of solar production as if the panels are still made mostly in the West, grossly underestimating their carbon intensity, even as governments rush to draft and implement net zero policy based around the very same flawed data.
"They [the data] showed how much solar photovoltaic systems used in terms of raw materials: silicon, aluminum, copper, glass, steel, and silver. Then I saw the carbon footprint. It just seemed way too small," he told Environmental Progress.
His quick calculations came to those initial figures above, where the solar panels are 3 times as carbon intensive as nat gas.
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