A) Less expensive than fossil fuels
B) Can absorb energy 24 hours a day
C) Can be used to power cars
D) Cleaner than fossil fuels
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All of them.
A) Passive solar design is going to be a lower cost solution that burning fossil fuels to either heat or cool. However there is a practical limit to how much heating or cooling you can obtain.
I’m not convinced that PV based solar energy is that cost effective.
B) Absorbing energy is not what you want from a power source.
If it is night time then solar power output will be effectively zero. So not much good if you want to provide heat or electricity at night.
C) Solar energy has been used to power vehicles. But as the energy density from sunlight is not great these vehicles look very strange.
D) Passive solar design is obviously much cleaner than burning fossil fuels. PV based solar electricity generation is not as clean as it at first appears. Those silicon cells take a considerable amount of energy to make and the processes involved produce some nasty waste products.
Actually, all of them are an advantage.