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T-Breezy1630 karma

For those who don't know, the C8 is the Canadian variant of the American M4.

T-Breezy1613 karma

Not to mention the damage to the earth in getting the materials to make the solar cells.

My 4th year project involved indium-tin metallic heterojunctions for thin film solar cell applications. When I was researching indium, I found out how rare it is, and how poor the countries are where it's found. Finding, extracting, and processing it takes a lot of energy and is quite toxic.

Plus, purely from an energy in vs energy out standpoint, a lot of solar takes something like ten plus years to break even by generating the same amount of energy that went into manufacturing them

T-Breezy162 karma

Meanwhile up in Canada, I'm looking at $1.14/L which is approx $4.42 /Gal. Even with the exchange rate, it's $3.52 USD / Gal