A Tab About Solar Power

So many tabs. I tried to close a few or store them in bookmarks.

Here's one that's easy to post today. It's from the British site Carbon Brief, back in August of this year. Factcheck: 16 false or misleading myths about solar power.

The article explains why for each one, often with good graphs. Here's the list: 

• FALSE Solar power is an ‘unreliable source of energy’
• FALSE ‘Solar and wind power are expensive’
• FALSE ‘As nations use more solar, bills get more expensive’
• FALSE Solar farms ‘pump out more carbon over their lifetimes than they save’
• FALSE Solar power is ‘a serious threat to agriculture and food security’
• FALSE Energy projects will generate a ‘tsunami of solar panel waste’
• FALSE Battery storage presents a ‘huge fire risk’
• FALSE Heatwaves make solar panels ‘significantly less efficient’
• FALSE Solar farms ‘will be designated brownfield sites and eventually disappear under housing forever’

• MISLEADING ‘Solar panels should be on roofs’ not in fields
• MISLEADING Solar should be built on ‘old brownfield sites…not on green land’
• MISLEADING ‘Bird and bat deaths are common’ on solar farms
• MISLEADING Solar farms are ‘destroying habitats on an industrial scale’
• MISLEADING Solar farms have a ‘devastating impact on house prices in the area’
• MISLEADING Solar farms ‘just can’t withstand the harsh elements of nature’
• MISLEADING ‘The rush for solar panels is leaving us at the mercy of China’

Which reminds me: I have to get to reading my copy of Bill McKibben's Here Comes the Sun.