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Originally Posted by dyna mo
you are leaving out 1 detail- massive forests need to be chopped down to collect that solar energy. just the empty spaces alone are not enough.
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People or companies that cut down trees to install Solar Panels sometimes have the wrong idea.
If you're a home owner and you have trees around your house, those trees block sunlight from hitting your house help keeping it cool, requiring less energy to cool your house. When the leaves fall in the fall, the light they now let through help heat your home, so less energy is required to heat it. Both reasons help to passively use solar energy to reduce your cost.
A good solar system can offset more CO2 than is absorbed by a tree. In fact, the office can be as high as 102:1 according to
this report in New England Clean Energy.
I would never want to cut down trees to give my panels more light if I could help it, but if I had to, I would make sure that I planted new baby trees in its place, and then plant a few more trees in a few other places too, just because.