As long as you are not clearcutting any trees to do this. Go for it. But solar arrays take up a HUGE footprint to generate decent amounts of power, that only works in sunlight. All the fuddyduddies need to get off the nuclear is bad soapbox, and embrace it. Zero carbon electricity, limited long term waste, effluent (water used in the primary system) does not hold high radioactivity forever like fuel rods and actual mechanical system components do…. So the footprint needed for short term storage is negligible. And remember there are 4-9 nuclear reactors at any given time from Kittery to the mass line along the coast. Soon to be 6-11…..

Actually it does, the equipment used to mine the minerals necessary to manufacture industrial sized panels burn on average 1800 gallons of diesel an hour, EACH. Then there are the plastics used in those same panels, made out of oil/petroleum, then there is the thousands of acres of woodlands that will be cut down to create a solar “farm” Add into all of that the electricity used to manufacture everything and that’s even more fossil fuels that are burnt. So yes solar power does burn fossil fuels and contributes to the exact pollution you’re talking about. When green or alternative energy sources are readily available and economical to replace fossil fuels or should we ever actually reach the point where cold fusion is possible than absolutely replace fossil fuels but right now fossil fuels are the cheapest and best method to power our electrical grid and daily lives.

Petroleum products isn’t one of those, yet. Electrical infrastructure isn’t economically capable of replacing oil for heat or the internal combustion engine for transportation and shipment of goods. Once you understand that Nuclear power is the best zero carbon power generation option, we can build more power plants to feed the grid and take all the Gas and coal plants offline, and have carbon free electricity.

solar takes a huge ground footprint (beyond the natural resources and supply chain issues to manufacture), wind is not reliable (also takes huge amounts of natural resources to create, as well as the tons of non recyclable plastics used in them) and hydro does not have the capacity to fill our growing needs.

So lets have the government run the power company….. “its civilians doing it” yeah all appointed by politicians… so yeah the government will run the power company. It will not be cheaper, it will be run worse, and the service will get MUCH worse. Remember, the government could not run a whore house successfully, what makes you think they can get a power grid and generation facilities done properly?