Chinese Solar Panel Pollution

China s pollution ridden air is blocking sun from solar panels solar panels 15 less productive due to pollution.

Chinese solar panel pollution.

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. In a study published last week in the journal nature the researchers. Solar panels generate 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than nuclear power plants.

They also contain lead cadmium and other toxic even carcinogenic chemicals that cannot be removed without breaking apart the entire panel. Environmental scientists and solar industry leaders are raising the red flag about used solar panels which contain toxic heavy metals and are considered hazardous waste. Protests last month exposed pollution problems at a manufacturing site in zhejiang province which according to industry insiders are just the tip of the iceberg. On some hazy days particularly in winter china s skies are blanketed by white and gray clouds of air pollutants.

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. 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. Despite greening industry pollution grows as energy production explodes. With recycling expensive.

Pollution is a real problem in china.