Chinese Solar Panel Pollution

Pollution is a real problem in china.

Chinese solar panel pollution. In a study published last week in the journal nature the researchers. With recycling expensive. New research shows that such smog not only dims the daylight and makes the air hard to breathe but it reduces the amount of sunlight reaching china s solar panels. China s pollution ridden air is blocking sun from solar panels solar panels 15 less productive due to pollution.

Solar panels generate 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than nuclear power plants. Between 2008 and 2013 china s fledgling solar electric panel industry dropped world prices by 80 percent a stunning achievement in a fiercely competitive high tech market. China s amount of pollution driven. On some hazy days particularly in winter china s skies are blanketed by white and gray clouds of air pollutants.

But the view from solar panel factories is sometimes a little different. They also contain lead cadmium and other toxic even carcinogenic chemicals that cannot be removed without breaking apart the entire panel. Symbolic of an era of new energy the solar industry presents a bright and clean image to the world. China s ageing solar panels are going to be a big environmental problem the issue of how to dispose of hazardous waste from ageing panels casts a shadow over the drive towards renewable energy.

So it should come as no surprise that the 13th five year plan includes drastic policy measures calling for a reduction of emissions from coal burning industries while showing support for wind solar and bio power.