Letter to the editor: Dark side of green energy

The average lifespan of a solar panel is only 25 years. Afterwards, does the user have to reinvest in all new panels when all the government grants are gone and the “green energy bubble” has burst?

What happens when these solar companies go under? When millions of burned-out, Chinese-made, solar panels are in our landfills, here are some of the toxins they can leak:

• Cadmium telluride

• Copper indium selenide

• Cadmium gallium

• Copper indium gallium

• Hexafluoroethane

• Lead

• Polyvinyl fluoride

• Silicon tetrachloride

Solar and windmill farms are already a real eyesore. These companies have to post a “rehabilitation bond” to rehab the environment once these facilities are deserted.

If it wasn’t for taxpayer-funded government grants contrived by left-wing politicians beholden to special interest groups, this entire industry, just like the electric car fad, would collapse like a house of cards. What does that tell you?

E. Joseph Biss

Greensburg