[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by mraines

I think it is naive to think that we humans do not have an effect on climate change. There are far too many humans using up the earth's resources, tearing down trees and emitting all kinds of pollutants. How could this not affect the climate?

what you are describing is bio-diversity collapse. . .

The effect on climate is more about humans creating a bigger solar radiation heat sink by replacing green areas with steel, asphalt and concrete, which absorbs and retains heat and is capable of raising the local temperature significantly

As far as climate change, the earth has been warming for at least 10,000 years since the last ice age, though there were no thermometers back then. . however the thermometer with a standardized scale is only about 200 years old, so there's a bit of excessive extrapolation going on as a mind game using fear. .

[Aces4]

Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

The farmland is not lost to solar panels, the panels can come down and plants go in at any time in the future.

Farmland lost is TV development where the land is permanently lost to housing which isn't going away . .

Ergo, unfounded fear and faulty logic considering you are living on lost farm land. . .

You are living in the perfect solution. Every house and building in The Villages should have solar on the roof. No wasted farm land, lots of sunlight and solar for a population which requires a large amount of electricity. Win-win.

[MrChip72]

Originally Posted by Bay Kid

I guess I'm not as smart as most replies. Common sense tells me there is a reflection up into the sky.

This is basically the opposite of common sense. The solar panels are black to absorb as much light as possible. Why would they possibly waste time in their design reflecting any light back up to the sky? There's no reflection. I have solar panels on my shop up North. They work great. I have them mounted on a steel roof and the excess heat goes down not up as I can hear the roof expanding from the heat on a sunny day.

[Two Bills]

Many new housing developments here in the UK incorporate solar panels in the tiling of the roof. They are part of the roof, not great lumps put on after roofing.
Any unused electricity generated is fed back into the National Grid, and the owner gets paid for it.
All we lack is the amount of sun that Florida has.
Never understood how a State, with as much sun as Florida, does not make it mandatory for new builds to have solar energy.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Two Bills

Many new housing developments here in the UK incorporate solar panels in the tiling of the roof. They are part of the roof, not great lumps put on after roofing.
Any unused electricity generated is fed back into the National Grid, and the owner gets paid for it.
All we lack is the amount of sun that Florida has.
Never understood how a State, with as much sun as Florida, does not make it mandatory for new builds to have solar energy.

Economically it does not seem to work out for us old folks. Also when shingles need to be replaced after 15 years or so, not cheap to take down and reinstall the solar panels

[Cliff Fr]

I'd be worried about hailstorms ruining the solar panels