December 6, 2016
ONLY INDEBTED TO THE SUN:
Solar panels have paid their energy debt - or are very close to it (Amy Middleton, 12/06/16, Cosmos)
Solar power has produced more energy than it took to make and install the systems, a new study has found.Researchers in the Netherlands calculated the global solar panel - or photovoltaic - industry will also break even within the next couple of years when it comes to greenhouse gases too."Over the whole life-cycle of a [photovoltaic] system, it pays back the energy invested and greenhouse gas emissions released during its production multiple times," Atse Louwen from Utrecht University and colleagues write in Nature Communications.
Posted by Orrin Judd at December 6, 2016 1:31 PM