Using Oil To Make Solar Panels

It contains some plastic components which are made out of oil.

Using oil to make solar panels.

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. Although the use of solar panels is green many solar panel manufacturing processes are not. 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. Of course it takes time to edit the video and time to create a website.

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. 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. 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.

That won t happen now but the. Array is installed on an oil platform. 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. 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.

None of this energy has to be created by burning oil or other fossil fuels. And solar s low cost trajectory is likely to continue. To create a solar panel caustic materials will emit greenhouse gases. Here a solar power corp.

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. So a solar panel will make many times more energy than it takes to make it.