Using Oil To Make Solar Panels

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.

Using oil to make solar panels.

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. That won t happen now but the. 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.

None of this energy has to be created by burning oil or other fossil fuels. 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. 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. 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.

Here a solar power corp. So a solar panel will make many times more energy than it takes to make it. An early use for solar panels was on oil platforms which needed power for navigation aids such as foghorns and flashing lights. A new company biosolar aims to kick petroleum to the curb at least in the realm of building solar photovoltaics cells of crystalline silicon that turn sunlight into electricity.

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. Then it makes energy with no energy cost at all for the rest of its life. Although the use of solar panels is green many solar panel manufacturing processes are not. To create a solar panel caustic materials will emit greenhouse gases.

Of course it takes time to edit the video and time to create a website. The best way to compare solar energy and fossil fuels without subsidies is to examine global energy prices.