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by olegkikin 3251 days ago
Should solar + batteries be considered truly renewable? Both panels and batteries do degrade. Solar panels last, what, 20-30 years? Big batteries probably around the same, if not less. And the production of them is not exactly clean, though probably much cleaner than gas/oil/coal for the same energy output.
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The raw materials for both can be reprocessed, so yeah.