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To: Eric who wrote (22099)	7/25/2010 4:55:16 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

Yeah, I learned the remediation process is only going to deal with 90-95% which leads me to wonder if that 5% will become important if these things are on every house in the country. Last time I checked an owner was responsible for anything on his property. Put 'em on the back of a truck and voila, they're not on the property anymore. I have a 20 watt silicon based panel made in 1972 that I took down from a repeater installation up in the Cascades on a mountain and am using it here to keep some lead acid car batteries charged in my garage. It still puts out over 85% of it's rated nameplate capacity. Not one lic of maintence required or one molecule of fossil fuel pollution emitted from it in all of those years! ..... The aluminum frame alone is worth quite a bit. And we can pretend no pollution comes from making silicon panels, batteries, aluminum frames, etc ..... as long the pollution isn't produced while the panels are on the house it doesn't exist. Is your car warranted 25 years, any ICE engine, in fact anything that burns fossil fuels? M.u< I guess if cars ran on solar power, they'd be warranted 25 years?