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Originally Posted by Merlin66
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My daughter looked at the total carbon footprint of digging the ore converting it to silicon and producing the panels v's the life and energy production....she concluded they were worse than Yallourn power station and should be banned from sale!!
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Mmmm! not very accurate there
http://energybulletin.net/node/17219
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solar photovoltaics produce approx 50 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour of energy produced. Coal, on the other hand, generates approx 974 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour"
