No there are not any enviromental risks of solar energy.
To date there are few if any environmental concerns with solar energy. One stretch on this might be this: what types of energy are used to create solar energy components. And, are these components "earth friendly". So far solar engineers have seen no environmental related protests.
Solar energy is one of the environmental friendly ways to harness energy. It does not cause environmental pollution. It will be the energy of the future.
Concerns about the environment and the resulting legislation have helped this industry to grow. Environmental issues created an increased demand for systems that control air quality and conserve energy
Try LEED.org (The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) They have a lot of links from there.
It is a permanent source and its 'harvesting' has nearly no environmental impact.
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large consumption of land surface area.
The majority of environmental concerns are not global issues and deal more with concerns to do with regional environmental issues. The last global environmental concern was the problem with the hole in the Ozone Layer.
The benefits are that it is free as you produce solar energy from the sun, it is environmental friendly as you do not burn, gas, coal or fuel to produce it, and if you produce extra energy you can feed this back in the national grid and get paid for it
Benoit Beckers has written: 'Solar energy at urban scale' -- subject(s): Solar energy, Environmental engineering, Urban climatology, City planning
There is not any side effect of solar energy on environment. In real terms no energy is without some environmental impact. Solar energy requires solar cells or some conversion panel to use the energy in some needed or desired form. These units take energy to create. This pollution is ignored as once made, no further pollution is created.
Short stories of environmental concerns can be an effective way of raising awareness on the need to conserve the environment. They can highlight on the environmental problems and possible solutions.