> Pray what kind of "environmental destruction" putting solar panels in the desert will cause that shadows actually digging the soil for coal?

Habitats of desert animals will be destroyed and they will go exinct. (But humans don't live in the desert and desert animals hold no cultural significance, so who cares, amirite?)

> The fact that a coal plant emits more radiation than a nuclear plant

Irrelevant. Chernobyl was the best thing to happen to Europe's biodiversity in centuries.