Q&A: Moon Landings and Making Medicine
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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The Carbon Cost of Solar Panels
The install costs are very high, aren't they? I was looking or us yesterday, and the payback period for a domestic system might be 25 years in some cases. We are also in danger of turning over quite a lot of agricultural land, especially in some countries, which is at a premium to turn it into a solar farm. So on the one hand, you're incentivising people to produce cheap, green electricity. But then the carbon cost of shipping in your food, because you're not growing on that land, from elsewhere, could be much higher.
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