(03-28-2019, 11:46 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(03-27-2019, 08:03 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: Doing 50% of the things in the GND will never be a win. It takes as much energy to make a solar panel as you get from one in it's lifetime. There's a reason that the manufacturers of wind and solar generators don't use the wind or solar generators they've already created to make more of them.

Wow.
You might actually really believe that.
Wow.

He's actually correct if you take the solar industry as a whole. The industry is not quite yet a net producer but close. Stanford University is just one offering of studies that speak to this. Because panels don't provide electricity as a stand alone unit, you also must consider the other equipment necessary like batteries, charge controls, wiring, etc. The PV industry is close but not there yet. Additionally, equipment may need to be purchased multiple times. The average lifecycle for a solar panel is roughly 20 years with drops in efficiency as they degrade and the supporting electrical will degrade well before then.

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