Recycling PV panels is not that hard https://www.greentechrenewables.com/article/can-solar-panels-be-recycled
Despite the recyclability of the modules, the process in which materials are separated can be tedious and requires advanced machinery.
It’s not a matter of if the solar panels can be recycled or not, the facts imply that Lebanon, like many third world countries, has no interest or not enough awareness to recycle panels. Lebanon lacks a proper recycling policy. It seems to me, from what I’ve read, that the only reason Lebanese citizens are investing in private, renewable energy is its affordability and abundance compared to other means. But once their economic crisis is resolved, most of them surely will go back to the old ways.
BTW, that link was informative, thanks. Do you have anything similar regarding the batteries and inverters?
Why should anyone go back to the old ways if they’re making you depend on some other country? Renewables make any country independent forever, it’s not something temporary. It’s like current Ukraine Russia war, you can decide stop buying gas all together without waiting for the war to end. Oil and gas will disappear one day, we consume them faster than nature can produce them, that’s a clear fact. So Lebanon should just start new businesses to recycle those panels, it’s about new jobs! And not that dirty, it’s not rubbish. Regarding the link it was suggested from youchat on you.com, you can try yourself, it’s a new way to search the web
What is this article trying to get at? It sounds like it’s a good thing that Lebanese people are owning their own means of generating clean energy and although it sucks that some are not able to afford to use solar it seems they were unable to afford diesel as well.
Not everything is a crisis. The author seems worried that the world will flood with used solar panels in a decade and labels this a “crisis” but we produce worse things in larger amounts and we manage to disposable of those things.
My takeaway is that the government needs to hurry up and process those loans or they should build a solar farm and run electricity to peoples homes.
the government needs to hurry up and process those loans or they should build a solar farm and run electricity to peoples homes.
This is the central problem for the authors. Through a clientilist network the government gave up its energy sector to enrich the owners of private generators who offer their services on a basis of subscription. With the rise of renewable energy, individuals took the matter into their own hands by installing solar panels. As the article states, the lack of proper legislation accomodating this technology renders the solar farms you’re speaking of are legally unfeasible. And if the government wants to preserve the private interests of generator owners, the situation may as well stay like that.
That’s a great headline