Affordable Solar & Wind

What are the negative effects of Solar Energy?

I have a debate coming up at school and the topic is that 'All new houses should have solar panels'

I think that we do have our backs against the wall but we can only come up with that they are bad in areas with inconsistant weather and for how expensive they are and there are more consistant types of energy such as wind turbines, wave enrgy and geo-thermal.

are there any other negative effects? is there something that we can build on on the points we have already and are there any good websites??

oh yes, we live in Queensland, Australia and the drought is starting to turn!

Yeah unfortunately cost and weather are the only negatives I think... and the weather can be overcome by using other sources..

So cost has to be your main line of argument - but it's a great one, because it is actually so prohibitive that no-one's going to do it anytime soon.

You could research the costs and compare them to other forms of power - then argue that putting solar panels on all houses would be stupid, because you could power the whole country with wind for 1/10 of the cost, or whatever...

Plus with costs, someone has to pay for them.. is it homeowners or taxpayers? What does that mean for ordinary people? Are there better things that money could be spent on?

I don't think you've got your back against the wall at all - you've got the "sensible"/"pragmatic" side of the argument rather than the "idealistic" side, but in real life the pragmatic side usually wins as soon as people realise they will have to pay for the ideals

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