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Old 09-14-2018, 12:59 PM   #55 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
A 200w solar panel here in NM should be able to make about the equivalent energy of 1 gallon of gas once a month in energy.
So if the panel lasts 30 years it will make 360 gallons of gas.
I'm pretty sure no where near that went into making them, but mono cell manufacture is extremely energy intensive.
The return on energy investment I have heard for solar panels, is less than 2 years. Most of the energy goes into the aluminum and glass, as I understand it. The silicon, glass, and aluminum can all be recycled, saving a lot of energy on the next generation of panels.

An electric car can drive over 41,000 miles on the electricity produced by just one 200watt solar panel. I have 31 327watt solar panels, so they will produce enough electricity to drive over 1.9 Million miles in 30 years.
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