Using Oil To Make Solar Panels

The best way to compare solar energy and fossil fuels without subsidies is to examine global energy prices.

Using oil to make solar panels.

Unlike oil gas and coal solar pv is a technology not a fuel meaning that its costs will continue to fall every year as research continues and technology improves. A solar panel requires energy to make a panel roughly equivalent to the amount of energy it outputs in the first two years of its life. Here a solar power corp. Of course it takes time to edit the video and time to create a website.

It contains some plastic components which are made out of oil. That won t happen now but the. Oil will have been used in the making of all the plastic components electricity in the glass manufacture which could be from oil or gas fired power stations. Array is installed on an oil platform.

Although the use of solar panels is green many solar panel manufacturing processes are not. Solar panels have a sheet of t empered glass on the front and a p olymer encapsulation on the back with the internals fired to several hundred degrees in their manufacture all of which would use some kind of fossil fuel with a percentage of nuclear. And solar s low cost trajectory is likely to continue. It was basically an adventure for me and mid way into the project i decided that while i m learning about how to build a solar panel and putting it together why not create a free video to help others that want to learn about solar energy and how to build a solar panel.

An early use for solar panels was on oil platforms which needed power for navigation aids such as foghorns and flashing lights. For consumers once they ve moved through the initial payback phase their panels are generating energy without consuming energy putting lie to the claim that solar panels use up more energy than they can possibly make. So a solar panel will make many times more energy than it takes to make it. Then it makes energy with no energy cost at all for the rest of its life.

The solar industry expected to add more panels in 2020 than in any other previous year said abigail hopper president of the solar energy industries association. Even ten years ago this study said it takes about 2 years of energy generation to pay back the energy used to make the solar panel.