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Give me a digger, I'll clear it. Seriously, the glass can be simply ground down and returned to sand.

There is always room for improvement but compared to the amount of concrete and steel used in the average power station gas, diesel, biomass or nuclear, the amount of dangerous materials in solar panels is absolutely tiny. I guess we will see more perovskyte panels in the future because of...

Substance Common in Encapsulated? Risk of Leaching (Normal) Risk (Landfill) Lead c-Si panels Yes Very low Low to moderate Cadmium CdTe panels Yes Very low Moderate Selenium CIGS panels Yes Very low Moderate Arsenic CIGS, GaAs Yes Very low Moderate Note: all encapsulated.

You can't get a ROHS certificate if it's that dangerous. The tiny amount of dangerous chemicals are not even in the panels which is made of silicon. I bet you don't know where and what amounts of dangerous chemicals are in those panels.

Can you see the square button below the throttle lever? Push once. It's on when it's depressed.

Check the throttle on off switch first.

EVs come with self driving software so servers are necessary but it's not just EVs. You have the same for high performance cars, no matter which fuel they use. On balance, would you rather stop all the software updates?

How much storm water would get inside the panels? Most of the materials used are impervious to water anyway (glass, aluminium, plastic, rubber, electric cables etc). Nothing soluble comes to mind. I think you exaggerate the amount of harmful substances in modern solar panels. Lots of them have...

Same issue when the time comes to disposal of your car. Compare with the amount of poisonous substances that your car is responsible for in its life, solar panels give fewer problems.

Do you know how muck selenium, arsenic, lead, cadmium there is in a modern solar panel? Tiny amount if any. The active film itself is only 0.2mm thick, the rest is to protect it against the elements. Solar panels last for 25 years, comparable to your car. Look into the future. Do you want your...

what do you like in your S3 when it was still working?

So you would not build up the grid before the windfarms in the North are completed? 1,870 kilometres of new transmission lines in 2024 and another roughly 1,600 kilometres are projected for 2025. The different lines, including SüdLink and SüdOstLink, are supposed to bring renewable electricity...

I wonder if MikelBikel know how much CO2 would a power station with the same 8.2GW would produce.

That sounds omnimous. Perhaps I should better be prepared. However, can you point to one successful example of working democracy? I watched Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell interviewing ex Ambassador Tom Fletcher some 3 months ago. In it, Fletcher retold his encounter with Berlusconi. As it...

it's easy to criticise (I know, I do plenty of that too), but what would you do for electricity besides burning fossil fuels and biomass?

Be careful what you are wishing for. Before you destroy the EU, watch what trump is doing to Americans. He is turning the USA into a kleptocracy

Can the USA win the AI battle? China is leading with least training cost, EU, represented by French Mistral LLM, leads on least running cost and data protection, OpenAI leads on most features. The race is now on zero human training. New frontier models are built by AI and won't need human...

Going by your reasoning, the Conservatives made a coalition with the lib Dems in 2010. Did nick clegg 'own' Cameron? Did the Conservatives become socialists in that eara? Did they have million immigrants every year?

It's not quite a parallel because the two journalist friends don't negotiate directly with one another while the USA and UK do. Trump knows Starmer wants the deal more than he does for political reasons in post brexit UK. No.

Starmer's deal is less good compared to what the EU is doing. The EU uses the money that it collects through counter measures to assist essential exporters exporting existing stocks such as wines and spirits. The result is financially neutral but they keep an equal pressure on the USA toward an...