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Today is part four of our series on dirty green energy, or as some might say,

renewable energy or clean energy. But as always, we here at the PDB are asking,

how clean or green is that stuff really? Well, so far we've discovered that solar panels are not

clean or green at all. They use Chinese slave labor and lots of coal energy to create something

called polysilicon. And we also know that wind energy is very dirty too. In fact, it's killing

America's national bird, the bald eagle, but the federal government won't tell us how many.

That's odd. Then of course, we have to talk about the batteries that store and distribute the

dirty green power that comes from things like solar and wind energy. Well, yesterday we talked

about the dirty minerals that go inside of those batteries. And as we now know, lithium and cobalt

in particular are very dirty for America. They have to be mined in other countries. And in some

cases, the people mining are little children, some only six years of age. Today we're looking at

the next dirty step in that battery process. We got to explore the refining, the manufacturing,

the life and the ultimate death of these batteries. But before we get going, let's remind ourselves

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