IT seems the house expert on echolalia was at it again this past week, continuing his lonely campaign to encourage the destruction of both the Philippine environment and its economy with two new arguments. The first was that there is a "looming problem" with the waste generated by solar and other forms of renewable energy (RE). The second was that there is not enough land in the Philippines for all the solar or wind power the country would need to adequately substitute for all that sweet, sweet fossil fuel-powered electricity generation that he evidently would like everyone to believe represents the apex of energy technology development.

Objectively, these are both valid areas of concern with respect to RE, which is why the renewable industry, its advocates and policymakers have prioritized work on both since the very beginning of the global push for RE. Since these are complex and important questions, we'll address each of them in turn, beginning with the challenge of what to do with the waste created by RE.

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