Emissions released by energy sources like gasoline or natural gas are harmful to the air and the environment, and making them even more awful is the fact that they are single-use energy sources. For instance, when you fill up your car’s tank with gasoline, you can’t reuse that gasoline once it’s been burned through. That means that oil companies need to constantly be drilling for more oil, further pilfering the Earth.
Solar panels, on the other hand, are a renewable source of energy. You aren’t going to lay out an entire field of solar panels, use them once, and then dispose of them recklessly only to build more. Instead, once electricity has been extracted from solar panels, you can just continue to collect more. Solar panels are built to last 25 to 30 years if properly maintained and cleaned. As long as the sun is shining on those panels, they are good to go for decades.
