[Berlin_Freeper]

The Astrologer’s Portrait Kindle Edition ($0.00)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LKQ0DXC?tag=eriq-hp-20

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Dealers in home heating coal charge as low as $100 a ton in bulk. Use maybe one or two tons per winter. How many tons of coal can you buy for the price of some solar panels? Enough to last a lifetime or two.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Chronic exposures to heavy metals can cause cancer, birth defects, and diseases of various target organs.

"It's your one-way ticket to midnight...call it Heavy Metal!"

[McGavin999]

The Mohave desert plant does more than fry birds alive, it destroys the delicate desert life that is shaded by the panels. Solar is an environmental disaster. Maybe someday it will be effective but for now it’s a disaster

[VanShuyten]

Here’s a good story from Montgomery County, MD. The county council is crowing today about the solar panel generation unit they have at their county jail. They say they’ll save $200,000/year.

I had to do some digging to get the rest of the story, but it seems to be this. Duke Power agreed to pay for the unit and charge the county its current electric rate. I couldn’t get exact numbers, but I think it was around $16,000,000. Coincidently, the county allowed Duke to raise its rates for everyone in the county. If this is true, then everyone in that lib county got screwed again.

[AndyTheBear]

We got solar panels, not because we thought them "greener", but because it made economic sense. We live in a place that electricity is very expensive and we get lots of sun.

No matter what way you generate power, there will be some kind of environmental down side. There is no such thing as a "clean" energy. The Environmentalist groups will call it clean right up to the point that it actually gets used by en masse...then they will eventually declare it dirty and fund raise against it.