Hail Storm Wipes Out Texas Solar Farm–Leaves Toxic Pollution
March 26, 2024
By Paul Homewood
So much for “clean energy”
https://twitter.com/will_tanner_1/status/1772420743252324631
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Oh dear. What a shame. Never mind.
Call China. They can fix it.
Cadmium telluride is NOT a toxic compound. Dingbat.
According to wikipedia (sorry, haven’t searched for a more reliable source) Cadmium telluride
According to the classification provided by companies to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in REACH registrations, it is still harmful to aquatic life with long lasting effects.
Additionally, the classification provided by companies to ECHA notifications classifies it as very toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects, very toxic to aquatic life, harmful if inhaled or swallowed and is harmful in contact with skin.
CdTe has low acute inhalation, oral, and aquatic toxicity, and is negative in the Ames mutagenicity test. Based on notification of these results to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), CdTe is no longer classified as harmful if ingested nor harmful in contact with skin, and the toxicity classification to aquatic life has been reduced.[
Gamecock doesn’t think anyone is going to lick or snort broken solar panels, anyway.
Leaching of Cd and Te from CDTe panels was investigated by a team from Stuttgart U recently (2021)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/2/398
They found that CdTe is not totally inert, leaching rates dependent on particle size as you would expect . The concluding paragraph says;
Our time-dependent leaching experiments have demonstrated severe leaching of Cd out of CdTe which is not finished until day 83. The measured elution of Cd and Te indicates a destabilization and corrosion of the compound CdTe. The CdTe particles are not stable in water, even for neutral water with pH7.
The leaching rates are admittedly slow but soil beneath the panels and groundwater contacting them if in landfill will be contaminated for a very long time .
Note also that newer perovskite panels incorporate Pb organometallics and will be spread all over farmland , the very environment where lead in fishing weights and in sporting shotguns is banned or phased out. Brilliant.