{"id":505,"date":"2008-03-10T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T10:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/solar-power-china\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:51","slug":"solar-power-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/solar-power-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power, China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s some reporting that shows that greed can compromise even the most environmentally viable of clean energy production methods, that is, solar power. The Washington Post<\/a> published a story over the weekend denouncing the Luoyang Zhonggui High-Technology Co. for dumping toxic waste used in the manufacturing of solar panels right in the middle of a country village. The material used to manufacture solar panels, polysilicon, has as byproduct a highly toxic substance called silicon tetrachloride. “The land where you dump or bury it will be infertile. No grass or trees will grow in the place. . . . It is like dynamite — it is poisonous, it is polluting. Human beings can never touch it,” said Ren Bingyan, a professor at the School of Material Sciences at Hebei Industrial University.<\/p>\n

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Green and greed may be spelt alike, but they are very, very incompatible. The story also highlights the need to take China’s ‘green advance’ claims with extreme caution.<\/p>\n

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