Production:
Producing Photovoltaic Panels (PVP, the common kind that look like blue windows) involves toxic chlorides and other dangerous chemicals. Workers risks exposure to toxic chemicals as they manufacture and dispose of PVP and the chemicals can harm the environment. Also these metals and quartz crystals must be mined which means habitat destruction. The materials cost a lot of energy to heat them to fuse them together.
Lifespan:
Concentrated solar power (CSP, the kind that reflects sunlight at a tower) plants are estimated to last over 30 years and photovoltaic panels lose significant efficiency after about the same amount of time.
Space:
Solar plants, like all human structures i know of, take up space in an environment. Structures may block the passage of resources, like streams, or traveling animals, like roadrunners which are often cornered by coyotes against the fences bordering them. They take up not only their own plot, but also require roads and power lines connecting them to other human infrastructure.
Environment:
Solar farmers tend to build in deserts. The farms emit and reflect more light than the natural land around them and can significantly raise the surrounding temperature. This attracts certain animals like bugs and birds. The plants often reroute or use significant amounts of water especially when they use water to clean PVP. Wet cooling in CSP plants use from 500 to 900 gallons of water per megawatt hour (MWh).
Pollution:
Plant workers clean PVP with chemicals that run off into the groundwater and surrounding lands. Also inside the plants pools with harmful chemicals attract and hurt animals.
Electromagnetic Field Generation:
Though some research indicates harmful effects on nearby animals, it is overall conflicted and inconclusive as best as i found.
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