Solar despair

It is the news that must cause some greens to despair, while for global warming sceptics it is causing ill-concealed glee. Solar panels, for years promoted as the environmentally-friendly way to heat water and cut greenhouse gases, are in the frame for actually making global warming worse. The shocking news has been revealed in recent research into a gas called nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), with a global warming potential of 17,000 times the power of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.