I was gifted a defective solar panel, so I made it into a desk!

This looks like a cheap poly crystalline silicon module, so the point about cadmium isn’t relevant. For reference here are side by side comparisons

I wasn't making a distinction because the average person on this subreddit or reddit as a whole has no damn clue about thin film, mono crystaline, polycrystaline, bifacial, monofacial etc. My point remains unchanged. Do not use these as tables. There are hazardous materials and chemicals in these things that you can absolutely get really sick from if you breath them in from a broken panel.

Probably not great to have the top comment be this alarmist about solar PV contamination when we definitely need wider adoption…

I'm not alarmist against solar energy here. I'm alarmist against taking something that is designed to create a chemical reaction to generate energy and using it as a PC table though. Especially if the panel itself is defective/broken. Same way I wouldn't go and tell people to avoid a mercury stick thermometers but I also wouldn't tell them to use it as a swizzle stick every night either.

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