https://fee.org/articles/solar-panels-produce-tons-of-toxic-waste-literally/
Solar Panels Produce Tons of Toxic Waste—Literally
A closer look at solar panels opens a wide array of questions that need answers.
Monday, November 18, 2019
Stanford Magazine also
points out that solar energy has a higher carbon footprint than wind and nuclear energy. Ray Weiss, a professor of Geochemistry at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
explains that a number of solar panels release nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a chemical compound 17,000 times worse for the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. As recently as 2015, he explained that many manufacturers were still struggling to figure out how to contain its release into the atmosphere.