400 mile electric RV

Timmo! wrote:

time2roll wrote:

Timmo! wrote:
If a solar panel is manufactured using electricity generated from coal (China), how "green" is it? Are there "greener" options?

You remind me of the guy that can't fix anything because he has no workbench. And no workbench to build a workbench.

Nah, a value based consumer. If I'm going to pay a premium for a particular "benefit", then I want to make sure I maximize the value of that "benefit".

In other words, if reducing carbon emissions is the "benefit", then I want make sure one of the qualities is very low low carbon emissions during it's entire lifecycle (manufacture -> use -> disposal).

Some people focus strictly only on "use" and disregard the mountain of carbon emissions produced by greedy, profit-driven Chinese factories (manufacture)...and what winds up in our landfills, aka Mother Earth(disposal).

I look at the entire cost: monetarily and socially, cradle to grave.

So we should not build solar panels until we have electricity from solar panels to build them?

I keep thinking to eliminate coal we should build the panels. Otherwise we will just be using coal indefinitely.