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Why would you think there's a possible break in environmental equilibrium due to solar energy. They amount of solar energy entering the atmosphere won't change.

• hueving 11y ago
  You missed the point. He meant the energy you are talking about as 'wasted'.
• sravfeyn 11y ago
  > They amount of solar energy entering the atmosphere won't change True > The only thing that changes is instead of the energy being wasted The solar energy that is falling on earth and that is not yet captured by the solar panels is doing a good number of direct things, such as Photosynthesis (not that Photosynthesis is stopped by putting solar panels, but one example of direct things Sun is doing), and an unknown number of indirect things such as Heating the atmosphere by scattering back from earthly-surface (causing many ecological reactions). Would you consider all these effects waste? If we do know all these effects and also know that redirecting this solar energy into our energy needs won't significantly annihilate the effects, then it's good. I am curious to know about studies in this regard. If there are no studies and my question itself is pointless, I want to be enlightened, because I haven't had a satisfactory explanation yet. One argument might be that, all the solar energy that's captured and used by us will also generate heat back into atmosphere and thereby not changing the ecological reactions in earth atmosphere - but I just made it up