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Photovoltaic cells are made of toxic heavy metals.
Any country with environmental protection laws can't make them competitively against China, which doesn't care about their next 10 generations of birth defects.
Disposing the worn-out and damaged ones will be as big a nightmare as storing nuclear power waste forever.
You can do the math and prove windmills and grain alcohol fuel are net energy sinks, but the losses on solar photovoltaic and nuclear are long-term and difficult to assess with precision
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Real solar panels have limited lifetimes. They aren't build-and-forget like in video games. Needing to replace old panels is effectively a fuel-pollution cycle and on large scales like powering entire countries, this is going to add up.

Disposing of old panels on large scales generates huge amounts of electronic waste, and potentially also heavy metal pollution etc depending on the dopants used. Recycling is still in its infancy, and is currently very energy intensive, effectively reducing the stated efficiency of panels.

Replacing old panels requires mining and refining, which requires emissions from energy generation assuming there isn't enough solar to be independent of other energy sources, and lowers the stated efficiency of solar even further even if it is able to run independent of other energy sources. There are also chemical processes in the production chain that will create emissions regardless of how the electrical energy is provided
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they make cheap panels because they use sweatshops to put together the components from the raw material they get from african child labor camps (that they own) and have zero concern with the environmental impact that both the mining and constructing solar has on the environment.
they dont care about the millions of people poisoned by the pollution enough to switch from coal power.

they want thew west to get hooked on cheap solar so that when the nations become dependent on them, the chinks can yank america around like the Saudis have been
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