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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
The oil & the wind came & come from the sun. Don't solar panels contain plastic? The "getting away" we need, until we can get away, is from the wasteful practices we developed before we knew better. It's not as if folks in much earlier times didn't notice choking on fumes was not preferable to clean air. $! heh.
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My husband has worked in research for solar panel manufacturing, and actually, the latest research is attempting to figure out ways to make panels in the most environmentally responsible way possible, in addition to attempting to use materials that are plentiful (aka not using rare earths).
I'm all for getting off of oil, but I think we need to reconsider how our power grid currently operates, and invest in fuel cell technology. Wind doesn't do us a lot of good if it overloads the system; we need some way to store power effectively over the longer term with minimal loss.