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Are there any possible dangers to using solar energy?

Could storing solar energy instead of letting it go its own way affect weather patterns? Some other type of changes I'm not thing of?
gpt
1) Will our climate/weather be threatened because of the redistribution of solar energy/heat, etc. due to large solar panel coverage?

 No. The sun illuminates the planet with approximately 90,000 TerraWatts of energy at all times. All of humanity currently requires about 17 TerraWatts. Let's say we're ambitious and increase our energy consumption by an order of magnitude (up to 170 TerraWatts). That would still be less than 0.2% of the total solar flux being converted to solar, much of which would be converted into heat anyway because of the inefficiencies in how we use power. The largest impact solar is likely to have is on the reduction of carbon emissions, but the overwhelming scientific consensus is that less carbon will be healthy for earth's climate. 

2) Are there environmental problems (materials scarcity, safety hazards, disposal, etc.) associated with the production, maintenance, and disposal of solar panels?

This is very technology dependent. Most of the current solar backbone is built on Silicon, which is an extremely abundant, inert material. Cadmium Telluride, on the other hand, is also a reasonably popular technology is quite rare (because of Tellurium), and quite toxic in the wrong exposure circumstances (Cadmium). In that case, there are quite a few things to consider. More speculative solar technologies, such as organic solar cells, III-V's, and perovskites will have their own issues as well, but have not yet been studied deeply.