Mr. Love manager of Nelson hydro states the solar garden will decrease Green House Gas.
In our northern latitudes where solar works 10% of the time, all the non renewables required to make and transport these panels exceeds what they return in their life time. Google engineers gave up.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/22/shocker-top-google-engineers-say-renewable-energy-simply-wont-work/
Solar panels last for maybe 25 years, and as they age they make less and less power. Then they become toxic waste, they are made with NF3 and SF6 dangerous heat trapping gases, Nitrogen trifluoride 16,100 x more potent than CO2 and sulfur hexafluoride 23,900 x more potent as well as heavy metals and other toxic items that go to our landfill in 20 years.
All solar panels are now made in
China,
Germany’s
huge failure
https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=german%20solar%20failure has bankrupted all manufacturers worldwide, China is now making solar panels that are experiencing early failures in huge quantities, 34% in a recent major California installation, the Sarnia Sun Mine the largest canadian solar installation replaced 30% recently, who paid, they called it "utility costs"?
Ontario pays huge feed in tariffs to attract individuals to install solar, something like 8 times more than power is worth and everyone else pays for this boondoggle.
To mine solar cell quality selenium for solar cells requires
diesel mining equipments, heating raw
materials to over 3000 degrees to make solar cells and metal frames with coal
that was probably shipped from Fernie, mined with diesel equipment, sent by
diesel powered trains to Roberts Bank, shipped in diesel powered ships to China
where Fernie coal heated all the raw materials to make solar panels, whew!.
Then shipped on diesel spewing transports, to another ship
using diesel, to reach North American shores and be shipped again by diesel
trucks, to Nelson where the real sunhours for solar is little better than 10%
annually, and virtually none of this power is earned in winter when we need it
most, results in a negative contribution to global warming. Studies show solar panels can increase GHG emissions instead of reducing them as everyone expects.
Studies also show solar panels even where the sun does shine take
years to return the energy required to make and transport etc, as above!
Pretty slick solar industry propaganda, political
correctness and greenwashing at its best, but the truth is beginning to come
out.
The entire premise of solar power is to reduce global warming by reducing GHG emissions, its not working but the propaganda persists.
