I get that solar POWER is infinite and clean, but the panels used to harvest it are anything but that, aren’t they? Aren’t solar panels just another way to pollute the earth because of their production and inevitable mass discarding?
Isn’t it the exact same problem for wind turbines? Won’t we eventually run out of material/resources to make those as well? Not to mention the noise pollution and the killing of avian life.
Could these alternative sources really be considered clean? If so, why?
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> Aren’t solar panels just another way to pollute the earth because of their production and inevitable mass discarding?
They can be recycled.
Of course literally everything we do has an impact on the Earth. Sure. If we want to have no impact at all we can’t build houses or grow food either.
The thing is, with clean energy we still need to build the infrastructure, but the energy itself doesn’t involve harming the climate. You build a solar panel as a one-off cost, and then it just runs for years. It doesn’t have a climate cost per watt, only a cost for the initial construction.
Compare this to a coal plant, which still needs to be built, just like the solar panel, but *also* needs a constant source of fuel, and the energy comes from that fuel. So every watt of energy we produce comes with a bill in form of CO2 emitted.
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