Do not throw away old solar panels, they can last for 30 or more years (demo & more, in description)

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I show not (!) to discard & throwaway solar panels, after their (say standard) lifetime has expired. What is their lifetime? 20 Years or 30 Years or even 50 Years?

Please know: at the moment where we live now (30 april 2025) there is not (or a very limited) knowledge about how solar panels are (say) deteriorating in their maximum ampères range over time (= their energy out, say in terns of Watts) that they can give out, after say, 20 or more years or so.

Guarantee is/was standard 25 Years and that is completely true. But after these years the panels can surely serve out their energy for another 25 years, thus, in total: 50 years.

My experience: after say 20 years of using this solar panel (made for 4 Volts and say 100 mA out) is still intact and working OK.

And (much more important !!): the 10 solar panels on my shed in my garden also work properly after say more than 20 or more Years.

They were installed in (say) the year 2000 (better: the 1990’s) and still now in 2025 giving me 10 X 180 Watt in bright and clear sunlight, = 1.8 KiloWatt/hour when the sun shines bright.

These solar panels are thus very old and still work OK. In one panel some separate Si-panels shows a few cracks, but they still work on.

So the idea of this video is: rely on your (DC) solar panels. And (not advised) a “”home battery”.

When you want to throw away your money: OK & no problem. 5 or 10 KwH (kilowatt-hour) in a home battery is not much for a normal household!

They (home DC batteries) come (in general) with an enormous price.

When you do a serious calculation, bringing everything down to the price of 1 (one) KiloWatt hour, on the location where you live on earth, its latitude, its sunlight during the year, etc.

In general that makes no sense, apart from the enormous environmental issues that come with home batteries, car batteries, say Tesla, or BDY cars from China, etc.

Our Governments have to guarantee our household electrical energy. We do not need home batteries, say to save a few KiloWatt Hour. It makes no sense.

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