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Researchers in Brazil tested second-life polycrystalline PV modules for two years and found they retained 87–88% of their original power, wi

From the article:

Researchers at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil have conducted a 2-year testing on second-life polycrystalline solar modules deployed at their campus and have found that they can still ensure “stable” behavior, with performance consistent with annual degradation rates of up to 0.44%. “Despite the many aspects making it a difficult sell, circular economy and sustainability issues might work in favor of second-life photovoltaic modules, due to the huge amount of panels that will become available with the exponential growth this technology is undergoing for nearly a decade,” the research's lead author, Ricardo Rüther, told pv magazine.

This is so cool! They found that solar panels over two decades old still retain 87-88% of their original functionality.

If somebody can figure out how to build a sustainable business around secondhand solar panels we could see the price of solar installations become shockingly cheap. And it would save so many resources to just re-use the existing mostly-functional-but-older solar panels rather than recycling them for parts.

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The nice thing about solar power is that once you've built a solar farm the sun does not then need to be shipped to you through a series of international shipping lanes that can be cut off by other people's governments in response to the actions of other other people's governments. The sun is not subject to the stupid decisions of people you did not vote for in response to the stupid decisions of other people you did not vote for. The sun does not need to go through the Strait of Hormuz.

Even if you don't care about any of the other arguments in favour of solar power, this is a really good argument in favour of solar power.

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This is so fair and valid as an argument and it breaks my heart that the people most opposed to renewable clean energy are frankly too narrow-minded or just flat-out stupid to understand this as a reasonable point.