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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.
Solar power is very very energy efficient, e.g. when using it to warm up water during the day and storing it for later. When it comes to producing electricity, not so much.
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Replace Power with Panels, and you're right. Because photovoltaic cells, actual generation, are very very efficient in producing electricity.