727: A Simple Logistics Improvement Worth Billions To The Solar Industry, Philip Schwarz of PVpallet
Have you ever considered the environmental impact of the non-solar components we deploy in the solar industry? It’s good that we generate clean energy, and even better that we quantify the embodied energy of things like the solar panels we use. But, it takes a relatively “dirty” and old-fashioned industry to actually deliver those solar modules - logistics. And, one of the lowest-common-denominator, least-thought-about products in the logistics toolkit is a century-old ‘technology’ made of wood…the pallet.
While essential for transporting solar panels (among millions of other products), these…
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