It was April 2006, and the mood was celebratory at Napa Valley College. A crowd had assembled to toast the school’s new solar field — 5,600 photovoltaic panels arranged in neat rows across 5 acres of ...
Solar panels, like most things in life, die. Usually, the very thing they harvest energy from is what kills them. Solar panels work by using sunlight to knock electrons off atoms in solar cells in a ...