What are advantages and disadvantages of solar energy?

Question

What are advantages and disadvantages of solar energy?

Answer 1

advanteges would be it is a infinit energy source and it is very convient on the other side it is expenisve to build them and also the solar pannels do not capture 100% of the suns energy if that were to go up we would be running on solar energy right now if that was the case!

Answer 2

advantage=infinite.renewable,cheap

disadvantage=devices r expensive,if cloudy day,high maintenance

Answer 3

Advantage- better for the environment

Disadvantage- it will take some time to adapt to

Answer 4

Well solar power doesnt have too many disadvantages in my opinion. It is a renewable energy which is better for the environment. Pretty much anyone can use it, because everyone gets sunlight, of course some places are suited better for solar power than others.

The only disadvantage at this point is the price. Even though it is still cost effective and you can pay it off in under 20 years, commercially, they are not available at grid peridy prices yet (less than $2.13 per watt) for consumers.

Now there is a company, nanosolar who is producing panels for less than a dollar, but they are only providing their panels to large solar providers and municipalities (which makes sence).