nsaspook said:
Texas has some of the highest levels of renewable energy in that nation [...]
Good for Texas. By that I mean I'm positing that that is
good for Texas. As in the words you speak are a
compliment for Texas and not a detraction for Texas. I'm not being sarcastic here. I'm really saying that Texas, having some of the highest levels of renewable energy in the nation, is
good for Texas, and not a bad thing.
Right?
I feel the need to point this out, because the first video you quoted on post #1711, the YouTube video posted by "FOX 26 Houston" seems to portray solar panels and renewables as a
bad thing. Just listen to some of the quotes:
Randy Wallace (correspondent): You were worried about the environmental impact of this before it was ever here?
Nick Kaminsky (resident): That is correct.
Nick Kaminsky (resident): My concern is with the hail damage that came through and busted these panels up we now have some highly toxic chemicals that could be potentially leaking into our water table.
Miles Fugua (resident): There's numerous makeup in the chemicals on these things and the majority of them are cancer causing.
Randy Wallace (correspondent): In a way this is kinda your worst nightmare come true.
Miles Fugua (resident): It is.
Nick Kaminsky (resident): I have a family I have two children and a wife. My neighbors have kids. And a lot of other residents in the area who are on well water are concerned the chemicals are now leaking into our water table.
Miles Fugua (resident): So we've got livestock that have to drink it. We have to bathe, drink, ya know, all that good stuff. So, it's a big concern.
And that displays a gross misconception of solar panel materials. In
this reality (in the world which we live), any trace amounts of harmful chemicals are locked up in
solid form. They stay within the solar panels, even if those solar panels in question are cracked.
And nobody in the video is talking about the recycling/disposal process. No. Rather they're taking about the here-and-now, in the immediate aftermath of the cracked solar panels.
They are portraying the situation as when a solar panel has a crack in it, a flood of poisonous goo spontaneously spews forth, out of the cracked solar panels, and flows into and contaminates the water supply. That's just wrong. It's not true.
I'm willing to cut the residents some slack for not knowing physics and chemistry, but the journalists should know better. What was reported was nothing but fear mongering and sensationalism.