What are Problems of Fossil Fuels and the Advantages of Solar Energy.?

Question

What are the pros and cons of Solar Energy with respect to cost, impact on the environment, availability etc.

Answer 1

fossil fuels non renewable once there are used up there is no more,burning of them causes huge amounts of pollution

Solar energy free to all the sun as of yet is available to all people limited time to gather the solar energy (day time) if it is cloudy,and short days (winter) can make it unreliable,can be used is conjunction with wind turbines to supplement electricity to charge batteries to hold/store the energy

Answer 2

Solar will out live fossil fuel and is cleaner to use.

Answer 3

Solar energy does not work on the scale needed to impliment it sorry.

Answer 4

There are several problems with fossil fuels.  They are a limited commodity, they cause pollution when burned, and they are destructive to drill for or mine.

Solar energy is a growing technology right now.  People who have solar panels on their houses often generate more electricity than they can even use, and in some places they can sell it back to the power companies and make a profit while not paying for electricity.

At present, solar panels are expensive to buy, but this will change as more people buy them, just like any other technology.

For the environment, I would guess that solar energy is almost completely harmless.  I don't know what kind of chemicals that are required for making solar panels, but once they are produced, solar energy uses a virtually unlimited energy source that is clean to harvest and gives off no emissions.

Answer 5

Lets look at one acre of land.

Look at how much energy one acre of coal will make.

Look at how much energy one acre of oil will make.

Look at how much energy one acre of uranium will make.

Long after the coal is shoveled, the oil runs dry, the nukes stop glowing, the sun will still be shinning on your one acre.

Over the corse of time, solar will make more power than ALL other power sources.