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California needs clean firm power, and so does the...
The solar breeder factory was proposed in 1978. A solar manufacturing facility powered by, yes, solar panels.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978pvse.conf..825L/abstra...
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on Nov 16, 2021
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This does not include the energy needed to mine and manufacture the raw materials needed to build the solar panels. Most of those rare-earth elements in photovoltaics comes from vast mining operations in China.
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