Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India

Renewable energy is termed as clean energy.
The so-called clean energy is not so clean except help changing the business from one area to other.
The clean energy system with short life creates huge quantity of waste that occupy good land area and thus as part destroy the forest/water areas. Also require large land areas and power to manufacture them. Is there a 25 year analysis of the environmental impacts of Green Energy solutions? Solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries, have a manufactured expected life before they must be replaced. Disposal of solar panels, turbine blades, and batteries are high tech pollutants and require high tech toxic disposal processes.
The renewable energy production systems like Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Power Plants & Wind power plants as they come under land use and land cover changes part of human induced local weather changes. Similar to urban-heat-island effect, larger solar power plant create “Photovoltaic Heat-Island Effect” but it is a constant factor unlike urban heat island effect that steadily rises with city expansion. Barron-Gafford, et al., in 2016 presented a study that “Larger solar power plants increase local temperatures. We examined the PVHI empirically with experiments that spanned three biomes. We found temperatures over a PV plant were regularly 3–4 °C warmer than wildlands at night, which is in direct contrast to other studies based on models that suggested that PV systems should decrease ambient temperatures.” Wind energy systems showed an increase in night temperatures and decrease in day temperature but day time heat is transported to neighbouring areas and thus increase in temperature there.

Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy

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