PETER CLACK: The industry boasts that solar panels are '95% recyclable'. Technically, yes - because they are made of glass, aluminum and copper. But economics always trumps physics. In Australia and the US, it costs roughly $20 to $28 to properly disassemble and recycle a single panel, but only about $4 to dump it in landfill.

This isn't just a pile of debris - it’s the future of green energy waste hidden in plain sight.

Millions of solar panels are hitting their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the coming toxic avalanche. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy… pic.twitter.com/g7PG7CbBAb

— Peter Clack (@PeterDClack) May 19, 2026

This isn't just a pile of debris - it’s the future of green energy waste hidden in plain sight.

Millions of solar panels are hitting their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the coming toxic avalanche. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects up to 78 million metric tons of solar e-waste. Where is it all going to go?

The industry boasts that solar panels are '95% recyclable'. Technically, yes - because they are made of glass, aluminum and copper. But economics always trumps physics. In Australia and the US, it costs roughly $20 to $28 to properly disassemble and recycle a single panel, but only about $4 to dump it in landfill. 

Because there is no financial incentive, up to 90% of decommissioned panels go straight into the ground.  

Each solar panel is an industrial 'sandwich' bound tightly by heavy polymers. To extract the microscopic amounts of valuable silver and high-purity silicon requires energy-intensive chemical and thermal baking.  

When they are crushed or left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium can leach into the surrounding soil and groundwater, turning 'clean energy' into a multi-generational hazardous waste problem.

The crisis is accelerating faster than models predicted. Because solar cells degrade and lose efficiency, and because newer, cheaper panels hit the market, consumers and solar farms are ripping out functional systems at least a decade early to upgrade.

This compressed lifecycle destroys the narrative of a long-term, stable asset and creates an endless loop of unrecyclable industrial trash.

SAMA HOOLE: A herd of bison, fifty miles wide, takes five days to pass the hillside you are standing on. Colonel Dodge recorded this in Arkansas in 1871, and he was not the only one. From the top of Pawnee Rock the herd ran to the horizon in every direction at once. The earth, observers wrote, trembled at three miles.

In 1870, if you took a spade to the ground in Iowa, or Nebraska, or eastern Kansas, you could push it in to the haft and not hit anything that wasn't soil.

Six feet of topsoil. Black, friable, alive. The richest agricultural earth on the planet, by a margin so absurd that… pic.twitter.com/QxTHWd6N5O

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) May 19, 2026

In 1870, if you took a spade to the ground in Iowa, or Nebraska, or eastern Kansas, you could push it in to the haft and not hit anything that wasn't soil. Six feet of topsoil. Black, friable, alive. The richest agricultural earth on the planet, by a margin so absurd that European visitors with farming backgrounds went silent when they saw it turned over. Most arable land on Earth carries between one and eight inches of topsoil. The Great Plains carried seventy-two. Nobody had ploughed it. Nobody had fertilised it. Nobody had irrigated it. It had been built, slowly and completely, by something else. Stand back from the spade. Stand back from the field. Stand back far enough to see the continent. A herd of bison, fifty miles wide, takes five days to pass the hillside you are standing on. Colonel Dodge recorded this in Arkansas in 1871, and he was not the only one. From the top of Pawnee Rock the herd ran to the horizon in every direction at once. The earth, observers wrote, trembled at three miles. Sixty million animals. The largest gathering of large mammals the planet has ever held. They had been doing this for ten thousand years. The grass grew tall because the bison grazed it hard and moved on. Their hooves broke the crust for seed. Their wallows held the rain. Their dung fed the microbes. Their carcasses fed them harder. The deep-rooted prairie grasses, big bluestem, switchgrass, Indian grass, drove their roots fifteen feet down, locking carbon into the soil at a depth no plough would ever reach. The bison built the 6 feet of black earth. The bison were why it existed. Then the hide market arrived. Five thousand bison a day, shot from train windows, left to rot. The U.S. government encouraged it openly, because starving the Plains nations was cheaper than fighting them. By 1889, of the sixty million, five hundred and forty-one remained. The plough followed within a decade. The grass was turned under. The hooves and the wallows and the dung had stopped. The soil, untethered from the system that built it, dried. In April 1935 it rose into the sky as a black wall a thousand miles wide and travelled to the Atlantic. Six feet of soil, built over ten millennia, blown into the sea in a generation. There is no putting the bison back at that scale.

The cow is the closest analogue the continent has. Run her like a bison, on grass, on the move, in a tight mob. Watch what the land does. 

 

European mineral waters (especially from certain geological regions) tend to have higher overall mineralization, including sulfate, compared to typical North American spring waters.

No wonder why these waters are preferred: they're tastier than most because of the low sulfate.  But if you want health, then pursue waters with highest sulfate.

If you have a sensitivity (e.g., digestive issues) or prefer low-sulfate for taste, stick with options like Mountain Valley, Evian, or Fiji.  --Grok.

Not exactly — while many high-sulfate waters are sparkling mineral waters, carbonation itself doesn't cause high sulfate levels. Sulfate comes from the geological source (e.g., gypsum or dolomite layers the water passes through). Some still waters can also be high in sulfate, and many popular sparkling waters (like Perrier) have relatively low levels. 

High-sulfate waters (>200 mg/L SO₄) are often classified as "sulfate mineral waters" and may have a slightly bitter taste or mild laxative effect in large amounts.

Ranked List of Popular Bottled Waters by Sulfate Content (mg/L SO₄, approximate typical values)

Here’s a top-to-bottom ranking based on reliable analyses (values can vary slightly by batch/source):

Highest Sulfate:

Contrex (France, still): ~1,121–1,300 mg/L (extremely high) 

Crazy Water No. 4 (USA): ~1,170 mg/L

Roi (Slovenia): ~2,100 mg/L (very high, but extreme overall mineralization)

San Pellegrino (Italy, sparkling): ~420–549 mg/L (consistently one of the highest among widely available options) 

Apollinaris (Germany, sparkling): ~80–139 mg/L

Gerolsteiner (Germany, sparkling): ~35–40 mg/L

Badoit (France, sparkling): ~35–40 mg/L

Perrier (France, sparkling): ~25–33 mg/L

Buxton or similar UK/EU still/sparkling: Often 20–40 mg/L range

Evian, Volvic, Fiji, Crystal Geyser: Usually <10–20 mg/L

Mountain Valley Spring Water (USA, still): ~9 mg/L (low, as previously noted) 

Very low sulfate (often <5–10 mg/L): 

Many purified waters (e.g., Dasani, Aquafina) and some spring waters like Poland Spring or Deer Park.

Notes:

European mineral waters (especially from certain geological regions) tend to have higher overall mineralization, including sulfate, compared to typical North American spring waters.

Always check the specific bottle label or the brand’s latest water quality report, as natural sources can have minor variations.

If you have a sensitivity (e.g., digestive issues) or prefer low-sulfate for taste, stick with options like Mountain Valley, Evian, or Fiji.

Let me know if you want more details on a specific brand, TDS comparisons, or recommendations based on taste/health goals!

TOM LUONGO: John’s focus on this is extremely important. It highlights the depth of the betrayal of the Obama and Biden administrations.

John’s focus on this is extremely important. It highlights the depth of the betrayal of the Obama and Biden administrations.

They knew that Naval logistics were paramount to keeping Iran from getting a nuke, ensuring that when the day came we would have to deal with that… https://t.co/7TTD9usDYS

— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) May 19, 2026

from John Konrad,

“Today in the United States there are only 188 US flagged merchant ships and 105 Navy

@MSCSealift

ships. WE NEED MORE THAN THAT In fact, the Chinese have over 11,000 merchant ships,” said

@SECNAV

Hung Cao in today’s senate hearing. The days of the US Navy ignoring the US Merchant Marine and ocean logistics are over. “We need them to thrive as a nation.” He also provided clarity on @MSCSealift hulls ordered in foreign yards and said he will require that those overseas yards invest in the United States, which will create 540,000 shipyard jobs for Americans. 

How easy & legal it is for governments to fake or construct outbreak & pandemic events - 18 May 2026

Jessica Hockett & Katherine Watt.

Watt #5

It's possible to be born and grow up during historical periods in which distinctions between truth and error are deliberately rendered ambiguous or obscured (cognitive interference).

Promotion/inculcation of unjustified trust and compliance with illegitimate authority masked as legitimate authority (behavioral conditioning).

Malicious political actors impose cognitive blindness or impairment and conditioning for malicious purposes: demoralize (induce confusion and despair), weaken, render infertile.

The 1800s to now are such a period: mass media, "social communication," centralized scientific research funding & publishing; instantaneous worldwide distribution of false information; chronic immersion in false reality.

Four societal institutions for fact-finding: scientific research, journalism, courts, legislative hearings. All four distorted or blocked in disease causation arena.

It's possible to ask God for help to see truth more clearly, thwart conditioning, expose and dispel error, encourage others. He answers such prayers.

DIANA WEST: No debate, no reasoning possible or desirable when the man in the mortarboard quotes a rapper to attack Jefferson.

No debate, no reasoning possible or desirable when the man in the mortarboard quotes a rapper to attack Jefferson. https://t.co/IqjeuTMKwS

— @realDianaWest (@realDianaWest) May 19, 2026

JOHN GUANDOLO: The Islamic Center of San Diego is a terrorist mosque that continues to operate because those in authority are complicit with growing the US Islamic Movement. The American people have been abandoned by their state and federal governments.

The Islamic Center of San Diego is a terrorist mosque that continues to operate because those in authority are complicit with growing the US Islamic Movement.. The American people have been abandoned by their state and federal governments. #ShariaKills @HarmeetKDhillon pic.twitter.com/KHQpZ2zt7i

— John Guandolo (@JGuandolo54271) May 19, 2026

 And then he wrote a letter. He sat down, and he wrote a letter, in which he said, to a colleague in Boston—he said, you know, “Puerto Rico is beautiful. The weather is incredible. I love the island. However, the problem is with the Puerto Ricans. They’re awful. They steal. They’re filthy. And the thing to do, really, is to totally exterminate the population.” And then he said, “And I’ve started that. I’ve killed eight of my patients, and I’ve sought to transplant cancer into 13 more. Hope you’re doing well in Boston. Yours sincerely,” and just signed off. We know that, because he then left the letter out. It was discovered. It was discovered by the Puerto Rican staff of the hospital where he was working. And it became a national scandal, understandably. Puerto Ricans had heard the scorn of mainlanders. They had heard talk of the problem of Puerto Rican overpopulation and how mainlanders disapproved of it. But here they saw what they interpreted to be the homicidal—racist, homicidal intent from a doctor who had actually killed eight people.

Cornelius Rhoads left. He just fled the island, hoping, presumably, that what happens in San Juan stays in San Juan. The government did an investigation. It uncovered another letter, which the governor deemed worse than the first. But the governor, who was appointed governor—he was a mainlander who had been appointed and not elected—suppressed that letter—we don’t have it, no researcher has ever seen it or found it—and concluded, after having suppressed evidence, that Cornelius Rhoads probably didn’t kill eight of his patients. He was probably just joking or something like that. And Cornelius Rhoads never faced a hearing.

Not only that, he didn’t even get fired. So he returned to New York. He continued his job. He was quickly—he quickly became the vice president of the New York Academy of Medicine. And then, during World War II, he became a colonel in the Army and became the chief medical officer in the Chemical Warfare Service. So, that’s not only a promotion. Just think about what that allows him to do, because the Chemical Warfare Service is preparing the United States to enter a gas war, if it comes to that. So, in order to do that, it tests out all kinds of poison gas, first on animals—goats are preferred—but ultimately on human subjects, on uniformed men, who are, without a lot of informed consent, either having mustard agents applied to their skin to see how their skin blisters, are put in gas chambers with gas masks to see how long they can stay in there—they’re locked in there until they falter—or, in a lot of cases, there’s an island that the United States uses off of Panama, San José Island. And men are put in the field, and they’re asked to sort of stage mock battles. But while they do that, they’re gassed from overhead. And then, you know, this is to see how they’re affected.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And interestingly, Professor Immerwahr, there were many Puerto Ricans who served in World War II who ended up stationed in Panama and being subjected to some of the mustard gas experiments that were conducted at that time. I know, because one of my uncles, who served in the 65th Infantry, was in Panama and was subjected to those experiments. So, the interesting thing, though, is that Cornelius Rhoads remained a major figure—didn’t he?—in the medical world, and way up into only recently. Only in recent years has there been an attempt to sort of revise or reform the image of him in the medical community.

DANIEL IMMERWAHR: That’s exactly right. So, after overseeing these medical experiments with gas, in which 60,000 uniformed men, a lot of them Puerto Rican, were subjected, without informed consent, to chemical weapons. And many of them suffered debilitating effects as a result of this—emphysema, eye damage, genital scarring, psychological damage. Some of these men were really harmed by this. Nevertheless, that also didn’t impede him. And, in fact, some of that work with chemical agents alerted him, as well as some other doctors, to the possibility that mustard agents could be used to treat cancer. Cornelius Rhoads took some of the surplus stock of U.S. chemical weapons after the war and became the first director of the Sloan Kettering Institute and then used his position to sort of launch the, you know, turn to chemotherapy and tried chemical after chemical after chemical out on fighting cancer.

The incredible thing is that, within the U.S. medical community, that’s what he was remembered for. He appeared on the cover of Time magazine. There was an award given by the American Association of Cancer Research after Cornelius Rhoads, and that award was given for more than 20 years, before a Puerto Rican cancer researcher pointed out to the AACR, “You know the guy, after whom this award is named, the hero, Cornelius Rhoads? You know what he did in Puerto Rico?” And it had been 23 years. The informational segregation had been so extraordinary that it had been 23 years before the mainland medical community realized that the guy that they had been enthusiastically celebrating had at least said in a letter that he had killed eight of his patients.

AMY GOODMAN: And the statue of Cornelius Rhoads at 103rd and 5th Avenue was removed.