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A certain amount of searching should be required before forcing homework onto others. You can literally google "risk of fire increases with roof-mounted solar panels" and you will see it from tons of sources including pv-magazine and others.

"Citation?", "[Citation]", "Citation Needed" - these all bother me when the research is literally just copy/paste/search.

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Arguments presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. The person making a claim is the one required to back up their argument - not forcing homework on everyone who reads their unbaked argument to find evidence for your claims.

Interesting point, but I'm going to need a citation for that.

cute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

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If you are going to make a claim, you should back it up with citations. [1]

[1] https://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/citations/citationwhat

You’re putting an electrical system where there wasn’t one before. It’d be surprising if there wasn’t an increased risk.

More electrical systems in your house means more risk of fire.

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