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NoPotatoes wrote

I only sort of skimmed this, but did they really not mention the manufacturing of solar panels and how many rare earth metals they require?

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tabby wrote (edited )

They covered it briefly, sort of:

The production and installation of solar technology, like other renewables, involves additional emissions and other forms of environmental impact, such as the pollution and deforestation caused by mining the required minerals.

It's not just rare earth metals, either, but all the other materials involved and the extraction and production processes involved for each one of those and all the energy that's required.

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