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https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshe ... 8bc28121cc

   

As my link indicated, semiconductors, glass, and plastic can all be recycled into more solar panels.

And everything electronic has lead in it. That's just the way they have to be made.

   

   

So, what's your point? Nothing there is different than what I wrote. Nor is it any different than the link I gave.

   

FYI:

Float glass describes a manufacturing process, not a specific type of glazing.

Any glass can be 'floated', there is just not a huge market for poor quality in clarity, and high quality in thickness.

I think Mulvaney meant that it cannot be be recycled into window grade, annealed sheets. Which is rather meaningless.

   

I actually knew that. (thank you decades of watching "How It's Made") Molten glass is 'floated' on molten tin to produce flat sheets. I also know that tin + antimony is a RHoS substitute for the lead used in solder to make electronics, so I knew that 'float' glass containing antimony would cause problems in the glass manufacturing process.

And yes, it's meaningless. PV glass can be recycled into more PV glass, to keep it out of the plate glass recycle loop. Or you could add things to the molten glass to remove the metals, but it would be more expensive.

   

More of the same crap from people who'll deny the sky is blue.
You already know someone who's got an EV, hybrid, or electric boost vehicle. Forgot your electric razor needs recharging every couple months, not days. That the metal you're looking at is from an arc furnace, the LCDs light your house with 1/10th the power of the house you grew up in. The "gamer" is using 100X more power than the little brick your laptop, tablet or all-in-one. Or for that matter, is full of capacitors that don't produce power, just store it for use later. That Dad's "instant on" TV ate more power while it was OFF than your 80" smart TV uses.
Not saying the days of oil for fuel are over, just stating the obvious. We've already crested the hill.

   

   

I'm not sure about that, but could be?

I am most familiar with Pilkington's current offerings, and their antimony would be in the coatings applied to the glass, not the glass substrate.

Those coatings would be removed and recycled, long before a recycled piece makes it back to a float tank.

Other manufacturers may use different techniques.

   

I am not that familiar with glass manufacturing, my experience is more in the semiconductors. You may very well be right. I do recall that the antimony is used as a self cleaning enhancer? That would make sense that it was a coating, not added in the glass furnace.

   

^ That sentence doesn’t make sense either. A person only being able to take words at their literal face value and being unable to draw any conclusions from context is not “figuring out” anything it’s the exact opposite.

You’re really going to claim you couldn’t deduce anything from the context? I don’t believe that. I think you knew exactly what I meant but wanted to correct me....which is fair, I correct people all the time....but there’s no need to play dumb about it, is there?

   

NOTHING MAKE SENSE ANYMORE!

   

I'm not 'playing dumb'. If Science has taught me anything, it's to not make assumptions. Assumptions leads to bias. So deciding how to interpret what someone means, as opposed to what they actually write, can never be a good thing.

You wrote "I’ll see petrochemicals become a secondary energy source during my lifetime". 'Petrochemicals' are not an 'energy source'. Not a lot of interpretation there.

   

   

You’re not autistic, you don’t need to take things so literally. Surely you knew what I was referring to.

   

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