How Solar Panels Are Made 

Yeah, and I came to know that Lithium mining also isn't good and increases carbon footprint..

@@arpanchatterjee6663 Well, with today's equipment it is. The cruel joke is that to lower emissions from mining, you need green power and electric equipment. But to make them, you need lithium.

@@Ry_TSG that’s where sodium battery and iron-air battery comes, although the per kg capacity is much slower, but so does the cost and rare earth material used

Lithium Ion is great for energy storage up to 4 hours but after that, my money is on hydrogen storage

Thank.you.everyone

That's the first thing I noticed, too. Those are mirrors, not solar panels.

@@jfbeam same here! @1:10 for those who are wondering.

yeah, im not sure this person knows anything more than the rest of us.

Yep and the 'ingots' are silicon crystals

Quartz is more than coal? And coal burns and produce energy and pollution too silica doesn't

They aren't tough to recycle, just expensive. (one can't simply bulldoze one onto the back of a truck. takes about as much work to take one down as it took to build.) The biggest problem is getting people to recycle, well, anything. Wind farms tend to simply be abandoned, so there's no one to clean anything up.

go away recycling karen

@@davidanalyst671 wtf?

@@davidanalyst671 what the fuukk dumb. You seem to be defensive karen really.

I guess that's going to be another challenge for upcoming generations to deal with. As always our monocular view creates a temporary solution to what seems to be the current most important problem by creating another one probably even bigger. But as long there will be problems we will be looking for solutions. Hopefully

Great job with your husband! I bet you are living your best life right now.

I'm a young dad, I'm really glad to hear your story it inspires me.

What is fire movement please.?

@@user-mc6lh9sf7i Fire means Financial Independence Retire Early. It's been a movement teaching people financial independence and how to retire debt free through solid investment and frugal lifestyle.

@@harleylewiston8255 Your story is inspiring I'm 38 trying to achieve this goal you achieved.share some tips please so others can actually learn. You haven't still share any idea on how you earn weekly.

Those who are angry with themselves..

There are people who refuse to believe the earth is round. There’s an idiot for everything.

Pls explain more, any video of that back/bottom wiring?

How about that 2000 degree Celsius part?

Yes, but it is a heliostats power plant. But most importantly it looks really cool!

The U.S has a decent amount of solar panel factories, but not nearly enough. I've only ever heard of a few in all of Europe, though. If the green new deal every becomes reality then the U.S would be a global leader in production and development, though.

@@Ry_TSG ; I think the USA may be able to build up significant solar panel production sites. According to the spirit of Elon Musk with Tesla etc.. But I am much more in doubt if any EU country may be able and willing to install new domestic production sites for solar energy. The first step in photovoltaic was done in Gemany. But it is the same like with photo, computer, hifi, etc. etc. Founding activities are often done from Germany. But production ist always given away to asia. Thats the main megatrend of western countries. If there will be any return to domestic production is unclear. But I think currently the USA may be more willing to fetch production back to domestic sites, than in Europe. Europe is nowadays a retirement house !

@@wolfgangrenner4152 that's because of cost difference between manufacturing in usa and manufacturing in india or asia. You can only achieve high production with the help of high level of automation. I believe production using high automation will soon shift to develop countries as credit is cheaper in developed countries.

@@haja3274 The so called "Cost difference" from old industry nations (USA, EU) to young industry nations (entire Asia) is the differencs in competiveness from old retired nations in the West to young bussy nations in the East. The western world needs to bring more efforts to recover their state of being "industry nations". Otherwise they will fall back to third world wealthiness situation. It is an serious problem, not really understood from the old former industry nations in the West. When there will not be any effort to build own Electronicstuff etc. in Western World, Western World will continue its decline. I live in Europe and I see what a distance nowadays between super modern asian nations appeared, compared to the rather medivial european nations. It is not got for Europe and the USA. But up to now a serious willing of make a change in EU is not seen.

You are right, China has mastered the craft of having slave labor factories that everyone ignores. India has so many poor people, where no one can tell the difference. The only difference is that China is intentionally enslaving ethnic minorities and looking to exploit the USA next

do you have any source? i would love to know it

Mainly boron not sure about phosphorus though all others such as argon gas silicon dioxide , silicon , glass which is sand and a few other ingredients to make the glass clear-

Monocrystalline and polycristalline silicon panels (first generation solar panels, and the majority of them) don't. The only somewhat scarce is silver, and much more abundant copper and aluminum are substitutes.

Don’t feel proud unnecessarily if you didn’t contribute to this. What is there here for you to be proud of

@@Polyglot0101 exactly

buy a power pack 😄

It was talked about, Dyson solar ball.

The carbon is also coal.

forget about the energy used and the polution created the greenies just rub their bellies and say clean green renewable energy i feel better now

Most solar power banks don't produce enough electricity to actually charge a phone. Anker makes a bigger solar panel that can produce up to 20 watts. I want to get that to charge my power banks

you first improve your grammer

What?

Yes, they are. Their EROI is much greater than 1:1.

Since all these are a factor to you, You may as well stay in darkness so u can make good use of your green land. Wisdom my black ass.

This is a good question. At the beginning of the video it shows silica being heated in a furnace. What is that furnace burning to generate the heat to melt the silica? Is the first question I asked. Then there is a silver paste. How is that created? Then all the vinyl/plastic parts...from petroleum? And the metals used must be mined, what fuel is being used to do that? Smelting metals requires more heat... Also we need alot of batteries to store energy to use, at night or on cloudy days. So that is more manufacturing and raw materials. I'm not saying I don't support solar. I'm just wondering what the environmental cost is to manufacture enough solar panels (which could be affixed to many surfaces, not just empty land) to go completely solar. Can the planet afford that much more carbon emission? And the question someone else asked about recycling the panels when they're at the end of their 20 year cycle is good too. I would love to see a documentary that explores this more in depth and the possible solutions.

@bel z. I saw it. I don't know how outdated the info is. The questions about the amount of energy it takes to create solar, electric, wind turbines, nuclear reactors etc. are still valid. It's reasonable to ask for a cost and logistical analysis when considering alternative energy solutions, and to expect complete transparency about the downsides to them. What I don't want is a fluffy feel good ad campaign about how great these things are just so corps. and their lobbiests can get govt. contracts, then later we find out the net gain has only been to their shareholders, while the planet and people are no better off than before. And it seems like every time we blindly implement a new technology to fix one problem (or to make something easier or better), we end up with a different set of problems.