• qprimed@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    balked at the length, but could not stop reading. a worthwhile 5 minutes of your life.

    tl;dr “nothing good”. but while we still have no good solution for existing panels, manufacturing improvements that are ready for commercialization now could allow panels made in the next 2 years to be easily and profitability recycled at eol.

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      While at the same time those in the US really need to push for better legislature onwhat to do with the incoming solar panels, as we do not have much in place currently.

      Or it just all ends up in the landfills like most other things.

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      The word die can mean end of life, but has an alternative regular meaning: stopped working.

      We use it all the time, for example “I don’t know what happened, I was driving along and the engine just died.” “Due to bad weather my power died.” “I wanted to game, but my controller died.”

      Words can have different meaning and the verb die has a lot of meanings. And there is also a noun die, which is also in common use.

      died; dying ˈdī-iŋ

      intransitive verb

      1: to pass from physical life : EXPIRE died at the age of 56 die young died from his injuries a dying tree

      2a: to pass out of existence : CEASE their anger died at these words

      2b: to disappear or subside gradually often used with away, down, or out the storm died down

      3a: SINK, LANGUISH dying from fatigue

      3b: to long keenly or desperately dying to go

      3c: to be overwhelmed by emotion die of embarrassment

      4a: to cease functioning : STOP the motor died

      4b: to end in failure the bill died in committee

      5: to become indifferent die to worldly things