How are lithium batteries and solar panels constructed? Do you know without doing a search?
If so, what materials should replace lithium and the vinyl acetate used to hold the purified silicon wafers manufactured by robots and baked in electric furnaces powered by fossil fuels? Currently, it takes 2-3 years for a solar panel's energy output to break even on the energy used to manufacture it in the first place, and that's not even factoring in the mining costs for boron and phosphate (or its transformation into phosphorus).
How are lithium batteries and solar panels constructed? Do you know without doing a search?
If so, what materials should replace lithium and the vinyl acetate used to hold the purified silicon wafers manufactured by robots and baked in electric furnaces powered by fossil fuels? Currently, it takes 2-3 years for a solar panel's energy output to break even on the energy used to manufacture it in the first place, and that's not even factoring in the mining costs for boron and phosphate (or its transformation into phosphorus).