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And do the solar panels take more energy to produce than they give back?
Yes, that is the problem: current solar cell production technology has a long payback time. It takes several years to recover the energy that was used to make them. However, new solution processes based on nanoparticles will reduce the payback time to a few months (and the production costs too). It will happen, no doubt about it.

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