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by CydeWeys 3576 days ago
You can easily determine that this isn't true on first approximation by multiplying the rated output of the panel by thirty years, and dividing that by the price of electricity. It's well more than the panels are selling for. It wouldn't make any sense for them to sell for so low, so they aren't. It'd be like claiming that the raw materials that go into a $20K car cost $100K. Obviously, they don't.