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Don’t worry, the same actors who are very worried about recycling EV batteries (but now phone and laptop ones for some reason) will ignore little things like useful lifespan or reuse, focus on how few solar panels are getting recycled compared to being built, and then go back to explaining how all these renewables are really so much worse for the environment than perfectly good Clean Coal and gas pickup trucks.
Renewables absolutely crush all types of fossil fuels when taking the whole life cycle into account. That mean accounting for manufacturing, use, disassembly and recycling.
See https://www.worldenergy.org/publications/entry/comparison-of-energy-systems-using-life-cycle-assessment
Yes, obviously, but for some reason they don’t bring that up as much.