pollution

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Thread: pollution

# 18521 byArthur P. Smith on Nov. 18, 2003, 9:09 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

> The pollution caused by
> manufacturing PV cells is what I documented.

Sorry I must have missed that, but I hope you weren't quoting
the silly "55 gallons of toxic waste" thing that's been going
around. There was such a study, based on very low-volume processes
for manufacture of gallium-arsenide solar cells; in actuality,
mass-manufactured silicon PV cells provide net environmental benefit
in their manufacture since they are making use of waste silicon
from semiconductor chip manufacturing.

Arthur