Evaluating Solar PV Management Strategies by FANTASTIC 5

2024-08-21 00:54:13 UTC

Potentially less net resource use

2024-08-21 00:54:32 UTC

less maintenance cost

2024-08-21 00:54:41 UTC

who gonna recycle, I am lazy

2024-08-21 00:54:47 UTC

Less Material used if design life is extended

valerielua1603 — 2024-08-21 00:54:55 UTC

heavy initial research costs

2024-08-21 00:55:03 UTC

improving the design life of PV will reduce landfill and new inputs into the linear economy (i.e. no subsitute for first-use solar panels)

2024-08-21 00:55:10 UTC

Materials will be saved as opposed to being recycled and potentially being less effective

2024-08-21 00:55:12 UTC

current recycling technology and the utility rate is low

2024-08-21 00:55:14 UTC

Hard to recycle

Risk of contamination (construction materials are toxic)

2024-08-21 00:55:22 UTC

better designs, more competitive product

2024-08-21 00:55:35 UTC

requires technological innovation to be reused as solar panels, and no other paths to be recycled

2024-08-21 00:55:35 UTC

requires a lot of innovation

2024-08-21 00:56:20 UTC

Because Solar Panels are popular and are multimaterial there will be difficulties in recycling them as their usage and production increases

2024-08-21 00:56:24 UTC

more efficient creation of power?

2024-08-21 00:56:32 UTC

An elongated design life does not negate the potentially recycling PVs

2024-08-21 00:56:34 UTC

greater energy efficiency, longer lifespan

2024-08-21 00:56:35 UTC

Environmental viability

2024-08-21 00:56:40 UTC

Less toxic chemicals put into landfill, opportunity to recover valuable materials, creates green jobs

2024-08-21 00:56:47 UTC

Increasing design life might lead to lower consumption rates, and that may mean less materials going to waste?

2024-08-21 00:56:59 UTC

maintenance costs potentially

2024-08-21 00:57:39 UTC

Will need to recycle in the end anyways

valerielua1603 — 2024-08-21 00:59:14 UTC

panels will still require routine maintenance

2024-08-21 00:59:44 UTC

Solar panels will always have a limited lifespan, so recycling methods will apply to 100% of the market. Research into prolonging the lifespan may improve performance by a few years but if they are all being disposed of anyway, recycling is a much larger opportunity.

2024-08-21 00:59:53 UTC

Reuse and recovery of materials for either future solar panel products, or other products requirement same/similar materials

2024-08-21 01:00:01 UTC

Up to 95 % of the materials used to make solar panels can be recycled, and these extracted materials can be used for the same (i.e., the construction of more solar panels) or for other purposes.

2024-08-21 01:00:12 UTC

Because solar panels are made of metals we cannot afford to simply dump them into landfill

2024-08-21 01:00:38 UTC

In regards to existing solar panels: short term redesigning the solar panels is too big of a job and most people won't get new solar panels if they are existing users.

2024-08-21 01:01:05 UTC

potential better long term financial benefit (initial capital of buying & installing solar panels can be quite expensive), providing more savings over time (also providing reduced need for repairs or replacement)

2024-08-21 01:01:12 UTC

Financial barriers to recycling. Who is going to pay for it? Not me

2024-08-21 01:04:33 UTC

largely individual household-based, and not energy dense enough to meet greater community consumption needs (comparatively to other fuel sources, renewable or non-renewable)