2021-05-08 Myth: Solar Panels Generate Mountains Of Waste And Heat The Planet

This anti-solar PV article has some serious flaws. The commenter challenged me by asking “Do solar panels reflect heat?” I answered “No, solar panels do not reflect heat.” He then replied with this article.

This article claims that solar farms cause a heat island that’s hotter than the surrounding area. If the land is bright white sand and the solar panels are dark then the solar panels will absorb more sunlight than the surrounding area. If the surrounding land is as dark and absorbs as much sunlight as the solar panels then no change would happen. So it depends on the surrounding land.

Solar panels are 95% recycled so there are no “mountains of waste.”

https://www.cfact.org/2020/09/18/solar-panels-generate-mountains-of-waste-and-heat-the-planet/

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