The sun provides a tremendous resource for generating clean and sustainable electricity without toxic pollution or global warming emissions.
Externalities solar panels.
After solar panels are installed they produce emission free energy for 25 years.
Externalities on the roof.
This video discusses some of the negative externalities related to solar panel production and maintenance which supporters of green energy are virtually unaware of.
What to do with millions of square feet of worn out solar panels.
In the uk this has been patchy due to changing government policies and major expenditure is now required to deal with legacy wastes arising from early nuclear power generation effectively an external cost albeit an historical one.
Solar panels take a lot of energy to create but the total emissions are heavily front loaded.
Total land area requirements varies depending on the technology the topography of the site and the intensity.
Land use depending on their location larger utility scale solar facilities can raise concerns about land degradation and habitat loss.