This setup almost certainly took more carbon to make than it will ever replace. This is usually true anywhere it snows regularly. There are a couple of exceptions, but unless you are above 7000ft of elevation you are just making the problem worse. This guy should donate this setup to someone in Mexico where it would make sense.
I'm juggling a baby approaching lunch time at the moment, so I can't go into too much depth on this paper[0] I found 40 seconds ago, but the conclusion seems to think that solar panel EROIE in siwtzerland is somewhere between 7 and 10, which as a proxy for carbon intensity, /probably/ means it will actually result in net carbon reduction.
This might have been correct 30 or 40 years ago, but energy payback time for solar panels has been only a few years since at least the last millennium.
You need to back that up with genuine analysis and proven studies.
The reason i say this is that in some parts of the world capitalist things like building renewables to make or save money is politicised as a left or right wing issue with people arbitrarily for or against purely on that bucketing.
The politicisation is stupid and doesn’t even align well to any traditional left/right political divide other than ‘at one point in history they fell on one side or the other of the issue’ so now they are stuck there. It’s interesting with the perspective of someone who’s experienced a different countries right/left wing politics which have completely different views on various issues. As in there’s often no reason for such things to be in either side honestly. In fact for certain things that never got politicised in the USA such as battery storage the red states are leading the world in grid connected battery installation rates since it’s so profitable and the topic has avoided being bucketed into a left/right category all the while blocking offshore wind farm installation which has been bucketed as such.
Anyway due to this politicisation you cannot just post ‘this renewable initiative doesn’t work’ without honest analysis to back it up. This would need to include the massive drop in solar power and battery prices that have occurred recently.
