Used Solar Panel Theft
The Theft of Used Solar Panels
I knew that I would find a story like this one pretty soon. Talk about used solar panels. it really is a shame that some people will resort to this type of behaviour. It is kind of the same thing when people started stealing the copper wire right from the lamp posts.
UNDERNEWS: SOLAR PANEL THEFT BECOMING A PROBLEM
SOLAR PANEL THEFT BECOMING A PROBLEM. Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review – KQED, a public radio station in San Francisco, reported that as the cost of scrap metal has fallen thieves have turned to solar panels. … (Or, as a Fast Company story suggests, maybe the thieves are motivated by something else–a free source of power for the lamps used to grow another one of California’s biggest cash crops, marijuana.) But their actions could create a vicious circle. …
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