Court sees if church solar panels break electricity monopoly

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2. While solar energy is not as bad as the fastest growing sources of energy on this planet, coal...

...and gas, it is fraudulent to characterize it as "clean energy."

It's marginally better than gas, but since it currently requires gas to back it up, and therefore entrenches the unsustainable gas industry, any effect is trivial.

In thirty years, these panels will be electronic waste, and future generations will live with the onus of cleaning up the awful mess made by them, both in eventually abandoned mines where the stuff to make them is currently being produced - at huge health consequences for the miners and human beings in mining regions - and of course in the ultimate landfills where this garbage will end up.

We don't give a rat's ass about future generations, and of course since we don't care, we are willing to pat ourselves on the back and declare that this energy is "clean" while adding further burdens on the very people we are robbing blindly, our children, our grandchildren, their great grandchildren...everyone who comes after us.

With Trumpian scale lying, we keep saying, insipidly that solar energy is "clean."

It isn't. Batteries, should they ever become viable on a macroscopic scale for either "off grid" or grid based applications, contain toxic materials, waste energy via as required by the 2nd law of thermodynamics, and involve vast increases in mining. In the case of the Tesla batteries, the mining involves a conflict metal, cobalt, mined under slave like conditions run by African warlords.

From where I sit, this certainly isn't about so called "Christian Principles." It's about selective attention.