Are solar panels toxic?

What has prompted you to ask this question weijing3333?

Have you tried Googling your question? I am sure the component parts of solar panels are listed somewhere.

Do you mean solar panels on rooves. Or those in fields? Or are they the same thing?
<not going to google, as I presume the op will tell us>

There was a brilliant picture on my Facebook page of rows of cars in a car park. They were parked nose to nose in two rows with access roads in between just as normal but over each set of two cars - protecting them as a bonus - was a v shaped roof made of two solar panels. I'm afraid I have no idea how to access the photo and put it on here so I hope the description makes sense. More of this clever thinking would be good.

I googled solar canopies over cars and got lots of hits. Very interesting.

Thay are planned for car parks in Exeter and Nottingham and you can get a domestic-sized one that produces enough electricity to power your electric car for 13,000 miles.

What type of solar? The coolant in evacuated tube collectors is non-toxic, but some of the semiconductors used in solar PV are toxic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium_telluride#Toxicology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_indium_gallium_selenide
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZTS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_phosphide

Only to look at.

So are 60's tower blocks, many multi-storey car parks, Arnfield centres and an awful lot of post war office buildings. Solar panels serve a useful purpose and in many cases are much less obtrusive than wind turbines.
Nobody sees my solar panels (back of the house, orchard then Manor House gardens behind us) and they bring in an average £2- 2.5 tax free per year.

Two pounds fifty? That doesn't seem like much...

What do the Manor House people think of them?

I think that must be a mistake. Although they say it takes years to re-coup the initial outlay.

They would be obscured by the trees, and the house doesn't face us, but actually I wouldn't be bothered either way

Oops, forgot the "k"!!! Ha ha!
£2-2.5K

Well, you're doing extremely well compared to this! (scroll down)

I can see the pro's and cons.
If anybody is interested in the economics of it, we were fortunate (?) to make our investment at the higher feed-in tariff rate (currently 44p per unit) although I believe we paid more for our panels than today's prices. Our initial investment was I think £14K and we were led to believe we were likely to recoup that within 10 years plus the bonus of (slightly) lower energy bills. In fact it could well be less, unless someone switches the sun off. We have up to now been lucky with sunny summers and have generated 15,000 units to date . The best quarter's return so far has been over £700 , worst about £240 .

I don't think our 70's house roof was ever a thing of beauty and in any case I don't think the rooks in the trees opposite are too bothered

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! This could be a sneaky advert!!!

I saw a sheep in a field, licking one the other day. Two minutes later it was on its bck with its legs in the air.

You judge.

The link goes to an online seller of solar panels - so it could be a sneaky ad.