Clean Solar Power

Purifying silicon requires processing with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone and incorporating gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium-diselenide, and cadmium-telluride; much of this is highly toxic. Silicone dust is a hazard to the workers. It’s not like you can have a conveyor belt that takes sand into a containment vessel and spray it with these chemicals. A HUGE amount of sand is required to yield pure silicon. Far more than you can use a conveyor belt and way more than you can haul into a large hangar-sized building, treat, clean up, and haul away. And once more there is a minor chemical disposal issue.

Have you ever been to the Tower of London? Outside it I mean? There’s a spot where the King’s and Queen’s poop comes out. They would poop inside on their gilded poop thrones and the stuff would fall through a hidden hole in the floor and run down the outside wall. As far as the royals were concerned they were done with it since they never went outside that way. 

This is sort of like electrical cars. If you don’t go by the spot where they use the acid, or bury the batteries, or refine the oil into plastic, or create the 1,300 TONS of cement for each windmill, and so on and so forth, well, the whole thing is justa car moving down the road by clean-smelling magic! The stuff just comes down a wire and goes into a box underneath.

Used solar panels cannot be recycled.