[needle0]

Looking at social media in Japan, I tend to see strong enmity towards solar -- eg large solar farms destroy the surrounding environment, they don't fit in with Japan's mountainous terrain and are prone to breakage during storms and landslides, failure to generate after snow, processing of obsolete units, etc. While there seems to be merit to many of the arguments made, the overall hostile attitude towards solar in general comes off as surprising; it's as if they think solar is by default evil. Wondering what shaped this attitude.

[fomine3]

FIT is one of a big reason. Current price is somewhat fair but earlier price was too expensive, and some crappy constructors build many solars at the time by destroying environment. Everyone must pay a few cents per kWh for support such renewable operator. https://www.ichigo-green.co.jp/en/operation/purchase/ https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2022/0325_004.html

It's sad that solar overall is hated by some people. Tokyo decided that every new built house must have solar, that is good IMO because it's free space, but now criticized. Anyway note that Twitter and Yahoo News is heavily biased.

[bamboozled]

This seems like a bit of hyperbole I'm sorry.

Due to a shrinking population in Japan, there are a lot of left over farms (which are quite flat) being converted to solar farms, it's quite surprising how much solar you see in Japan nowadays.

There are also old mountains (which have been decimated from mining) being covered in Solar panels on their south facing side, these are rock faces so not really prone to intense land slippage. I can't think of a better use for them right now.

Yes Japan has a lot of eathquakes etc, but I don't think this means you can't build solar farms.

Yes, there was a case where a landslip killed a lot of people due to an illegally installed solar farm in a slippage area? It doesn't mean solar was to blame though?

I don't really agree with your comments sorry.

[needle0]

I myself don't strongly agree nor disagree with the individual arguments -- I'm not knowledgeable enough on the subject to form an opinion either for or against -- but the point was rather on the very strong hostile emotions displayed by the people posting them. It's like the hatred comes first and the individual arguments are brought up afterwards to justify it. I'm wondering where and why such negative sentiments come up.

[t_tsonev]

Yet Tokyo is mandating rooftop solar for new buildings. The good thing is that solar can be adapted to the environment to the point where it just doesn't make sense not to use it.