cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7461728
Solar panels are usually sold with 25 to 30 years of performance promises. But what happens after that, when the warranty language is long gone and you are
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Without reading the article, I’m betting that they just degrade in performance over time and that the warranty is the company’s bet of a certain amount of performance over those initial 30 years, which is pretty normal. A lot of products outlast their warranty by a good chunk of time if the manufacturing isn’t shoddy and they’re cared for properly.
A good car comes with a 10 year warranty, but there are 20-30 year old cars on the road. Even older if you include collector classics.
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A quarter of percent loss per year is 400 years to 0 then. Probably possible to recycle somehow when it degrades to half capacity or whatever?
