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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Unless something drastically happened with solar cells, they are far from being eco friendly. Sure, once built they create "green" energy. If it wasn't for wasting more energy during production than they can ever hope to recover throughout their useable lifetime. It is great when away from other power sources, but I wouldn't call it "green", not even if the production facility used green renewable energy themselves when making the solar cells. It is still a huge waste of energy no matter how you look at it.
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Sure, which is why I said "whether it actually is...".
But my point was there were other reasons to want a solar-charged device than simply, "it'll last longer when not near a wall socket". And to be a reason to want the thing it only has to be
perceived to be greener, not actually be.