Renewable energy is creating US jobs twice as fast as any other industry

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3. To be fair, working on rooftops in the sun can be dangerous.

It makes me nuts when I see young guys up there with uncovered skin and inadequate or no safety harnessing. They think they are invincible.

When they are my age, they'll be worrying about skin cancer, waiting for pathology reports... I'm a white guy who got far too much sun when I was young. Ultraviolet radiation is dangerous, even though it's natural. I also did some significant long term damage to myself believing I was superman in jobs requiring heavy labor.

Certain solar panels, especially those manufactured in places with poor or non-existent environmental and labor regulation, create large amounts of toxic waste. So does the manufacture of power control circuitry; inverters and such.

Kilowatt-hour for kilowatt-hour, the hazards of nuclear power may very well be less than solar.