A team of researchers at the University of New South Wales has found that due to increased demands for solar panels in the coming years there will be a corresponding increase in the need for aluminum to support them. In their paper published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the group describes how they arrived at estimates of demand for aluminum related to solar panels and ways to mitigate the impact the production of the aluminum will have on global warming. Timothy Laing, with the University of Brighton, has published a News & Views piece in the same journal issue outlining the work done by the team in Australia.A team of researchers at the University of New South Wales has found that due to increased demands for solar panels in the coming years there will be a corresponding increase in the need for aluminum to support them. In their paper published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the group describes how they arrived at estimates of demand for aluminum related to solar panels and ways to mitigate the impact the production of the aluminum will have on global warming. Timothy Laing, with the University of Brighton, has published a News & Views piece in the same journal issue outlining the work done by the team in Australia.
Calculating the coming aluminum demand for solar panels and how to mitigate its greenhouse impact
