My reading comprehension is just fine. You were arguing that coal had to be "dug out of the ground", unlike photovoltaic cells which are apparently dropped off on your doorstep for free by the Silicon Fairy or something.
There's the reading comprehension. Again, nobody is saying solar panels are free, and I'm not sure where you got the idea.
I'm saying that when states and corporations do their energy reporting, there's no need to report the non-absorbed ('waste') energy from PV. Sunlight striking the ground (and whether it's utilized in a way we appreciate, versus 'just' powering the weather and the water cycle) is not something we include in those numbers.
Heck, maybe we should make a home for your PV 'waste' energy, a new energy statistic that does account for all sunlight striking the Earth. So if you cut down vegetation to make a parking lot, it makes your country's energy numbers get worse. Neat! Maybe that would be useful as an additional metric, but it's far from what we're trying to measure with our existing energy reporting policies. Our existing policies emphasize the (much larger) problems of greenhouse gas emissions and local pollution impacts.
Anyway I think the point has been adequately made, cheers.
