heavy metals

Photovoltaics: Good to Go

There have been some controversies stirred up around the use of photovoltaics recently.  Apparently, the word on the street is that the production of PVs results in substantial amounts of pollution from heavy metal residues, and that the endlife of PVs comes all too soon, and with all too messy impacts.

Well, a new study is out, and from the looks of the results, PVs get a pretty damn good grade.  The entire study can be found here. 

The key graf reads thusly:

Submitted by Peter Henry on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 4:14pm. categories [ ]