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Solar panel manufacturing In recent times, manufacturers of solar panels have come under a considerable amount of condemnation. This kind of condemnation does not come from the fact that they manufacture appliances that help reduce dependence on non-renewable energy. On the contrary, the condemnation comes from what the lobbyist say is the cost of manufacturing the said panels. They claim that the cost of manufacturing the panel pales in comparison with the cost they portend to save. While there is no doubt about the environmental benefits of using solar power as opposed to other forms of non renewable energy sources, there is a major concern as regards the cost of the material that is used to manufacture the panels. The main concern is the amount of energy that is consumed while manufacturing the panels. It is said that the amount of energy one saves from using solar panels outweighs the cost of manufacturing the said panels. If this is anything to go by, it will take considerable amount of research before this is fully ascertained. Something that can be ascertained however is that using solar panels will eventually prove to be beneficial to the environment in the long-run. Studies show that it takes an average of 3-4 years before the impact on the environment can be fully nullified. At that point on, any power that will be generated from the panel will be truthfully clean and free from an environmentalists’ point of view. One other aspect that produces negative publicity when it comes to the solar panels is the use of silicon in manufacturing the panels. Whilst this is the bone of contention it is noteworthy to say that it is the silicon itself that produces the power in the panel during the production of power. What should also be known is the fact that among the many elements that exist in our universe, silicon is the most abundant thereby making it safe for use anywhere in the environment? It is nearly everywhere and as such its extraction does not impact much on the environment in either way. It is also in this regard that you will have to cut back on the extraction and the transportation of the said silicon and in turn spend heavily on other production costs. There is also the issue of the amount of energy expended in the purification of the said silicon, but this is usually recouped when the energy produced by the silicon outweighs the energy used in producing it. As can be seen, there are many positive Impacts on the environment when it com