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Cake day: June 5th, 2026

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    I’d been pretty skeptical that solar could ever cover its production costs

    If you mean EROI, no one should be skeptical about that, unless you are constantly being fed misinformation. Solar panels quickly generate the energy required to produce them, in the worst cases it takes a few years.

    And the good thing about solar panels is, they are incredibly durable, once they are put up they just keep on producing energy. Personally, I would argue that as long as not every roof is covered with them, recycling solar panels is bad. Why replace something that is still producing energy (and at that point for free, in EROI terms), when you could leave the old ones up and put the new panels on roofs that have none yet.

    Luckily, companies are starting to see that as well, and refurbish solar panels instead of recycling them.

    There’s a reason it goes reduce -> reuse -> recycle.




  • This comment got me to stop lurking and create an account! I finally found my people!

    I’m also still using an i5 750 for gaming. Just this year I upgraded to a whopping 12 GB of RAM, because a friend wanted to throw their old PC in the trash. I upgraded the GPU to an RX570 at some point. And the main reason I still use this PC instead of a low-power laptop is that many badly optimized games try to burn a hole in the integrated GPU for no reason (looking at you, unity).

    I love that someone else is still out there running an i5 750 :) There are dozens of us! The i5 750 was just too good for its time