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** https://plus.google.com/108295401642561419970/posts/inW8jwPX3Sp - a collection of climate and sustainability links
** https://plus.google.com/108295401642561419970/posts/inW8jwPX3Sp - a collection of climate and sustainability links
** http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/21108
** http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/21108
==Sources for notecards==
* '''41'''
** '''claim 1''': The most common type of solar cell is made of silicon, the most common material on Earth.
*** http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/ReviewSolGW09.pdf page 150: "Materials used today include amorphous silicon, polycrystalline silicon, micro-crystalline silicon, cadmium telluride, and copper indium selenide/sulfide."
*** http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Solar-Cell.html "The basic component of a solar cell is pure silicon..."
** '''claim 2''': The most common type of storage (rechargeable) battery is lead-acid, which is made of lead, sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen -- all common materials. (I'm leading off lithium-ion because lack of time, and it's true that lead-acid is hugely popular because it's so cheap.)
*** The only source I could find quickly for the materials in lead-acid batteries was [[wikipedia:Leadacid battery]]; the article didn't have a lot of sources.
*** However, they are definitely recyclable: http://www.lead-battery-recycling.com/lead-battery-recycling.html "All the components of the modern lead acid battery are recyclable and from an Industry perspective lead-acid batteries are an environmental success story because in the United States just over 96% is recovered and in most of the G7 nations upwards of 95% is recycled."
** '''claim 3''': Rare earth metals are recyclable; burnt fuels are, by their nature, not.
*** ''research later''
* '''42'''
** '''claim 1''': Fossil fuels are a major cause of global warming and environmental destruction.
*** http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/ch4s4-3-1.html "Fossil energy use is responsible for about 85% of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions produced annually."
* '''43'''
** '''claim 1''': Electricity usage is far less at night.
*** Saying "far less" may be an exaggeration; it's consistently less, but only about 10-20%. This page has a graph to substantiate that: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=13131
* '''44'''
** '''claim 1''': Investment in solar panels generally pays off after only a few years, after which the power is essentially free.
** '''claim 2''': The cost of solar panels is dropping rapidly due to the accelerating pace of research.
*** http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2013_5_14_As_Solar_PV_Efficiency_Climbs_Costs_Likely_To_Drop
**** (just a sample quote) "...recent advances in identifying potential organic materials for printable photovoltaic cells for thin film applications are promising to make that technology especially cost-effective, even while boosting its efficiency."

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