what are some advantages and disadvantages of solar energy?

Answer 1

Advantage is it doesn't use any fuel. Disadvantages is the high cost of the collectors and the fact that it doesn't work at night.

Answer 2

Advantages of today's solar cells are neglible. The cost to purchase and maintain them is huge compared to the electrical output.
Disadvantages are many... Easily smashed or broken by vandals in urban settings is one. Also, they are not very attractive when they are all over someones house in the suburbs! Households with heavy energy usage would have to put dozens of panels around the yard as well as cover the roof of their house - good luck finding neighbors that will put up with that!
Any location like Seattle Washington that spends more than half the year with rain would make this system completely useless!
Also, we have something called night where the sun doesn't appear at all - gee no energy when you need to turn on the lights!?
This technology needs to improve vastly before anyone should consider unplugging from the electric company!

Answer 3

Advantages are obvious. Disadvantage is primarily cost. Its all about dollars. Solar power is expensive and it often takes 20 or more years to break even - and then your solar system wears out.
Supply is insufficient for demand.
Takes up lots of space and is somewhat fragile,
Doesn't work at night without battery backup and batteries are high maintenance items and dangerous
Expensive to install
Very few installers that are trained properly
Most municipalities and building inspectors do not have experience or building codes to accommodate solar installation

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Adv:
Unlimited energy available only if properly instruments are used.
Needs less maintenance,
long term utilization.

Dis adv
Initial setup is very expensive,

Answer 6

Go to www.uspto.gov and enter patent number 5,430,333.

There you will see pollution free electric power able to be built to be more than 1000 times that of our largest Nuclear Reactor!

Plant Vogtle, our last Nuclear Reactor makes only 930 megawatts.

The first generation “baby” power plants from this new technology makes 1000 megawatts.

Vogtle cost $10 billion, 30 years ago.

These new power plants cost $2.5 billion in today’s money.

Vogtle is about to be retired, as are all our other Nuclear plants.

All the fueled power plants only have about a 30 life span.

The power plant design you will see at patent office site live well over 100 years.

They burn NO fuel what so ever!

It costs more to demolish a Nuclear plant than to build one new!

The spent Nuclear fuel has a 25,000 year storage problem with no solution yet, and a tremendous cost that defies accurate estimation due to the very long time frame.

Nuclear power has been estimated to cost more $50.00 per kilowatt hour when the demolition and storage costs are applied.

Guess who gets to foot that bill, the tax payer!

Being fuel-less the design you see at the patent office has a cost of about 3 cents per kilowatt hour.

Coal fired power plants make 8 lbs of air pollution to run 100 watt light bulb for an hour.

There are NO cost estimations for the clean up of all that pollution.

We keep seeing in the news about coal miners dieing in cave-ins.

With the high cost of electric power being hidden for so long by our politicians using their abysmally poor judgment to allow this to happen in the first place. Then compounding the problem with their constant lying about it to all of us, and the problem now coming to light despite their best efforts to lie and hide it. We are now stuck with the costs of their abysmally poor judgment after their being “paid” by big power to lie to us about the scope of this problem for decades.

Call all your elected official state, local, and federal. Tell them you want the pollution free electric power you saw at the patent office web site! Tell them to get off their assets and get moving on making pollution free and cheaper electric power happen ASAP!

Or swallow their lies so more until our nation is so polluted our children die younger than ever before. Cancer is running rampant everywhere, it comes from all the pollution our elected officials are allowing to be spewed into “our” environment every day. It time to put pollution into it’s proper place, “THE PAST”!

We now have the technology, we can build it, it’s 100% clean, and the electric power is cheaper than ANY fueled power plant.

Answer 7

in california, they used to give people an incentive for solar power