What's best for the planet? 4 solar panels or 2 bee hives?

Putting a hive in a city is a bad idea. Domestic bees, which are more resistant because they are fed by humans, eat the food of wild bees, and accelerate their disappearance.

If it was my problem to solve, here's how I'd go about it, since I know nothing about either.

Start with the solar panels since the barrier to entry is much lower and after they're installed, you don't need to do much with them.

Then use your spare time to learn about beehives and go from there.

Do the solar panels and let native pollinator friendly plants to grow around it.

Install solar panels and plant local flowers (drought resistant in drought prone areas).

The beehives have a huge prerequisite of making sure there's enough flowers throughout the year to feed them. So if they come with installing a full rooftop garden, that's great, otherwise you'd be better off sticking to the panels.

But putting up panels wouldn't prevent you from also starting container gardening. Pollinating insects are pretty good at making their own homes. What matters more is growing food for them and their larval stages to eat. So if you're up for it, install the panels, and start filling the gaps with container plants. Just don't go overboard because soil is too heavy for roofs that aren't designed for the extra load.

Honey bee hives are not good for the environment. If you wanna help the environment look into homes for native bees, and bugs. Usually these dont require much if any upkeep from you. Also there is no reason you couldnt do both. Put the hives under the solar panels. It will shield them from the elements too and keep the bees safe from storms and birds.

Elevated solar panels, with beehives underneath. I've seen a few of these combinations. The shade from the panels protect the hives from the worst of the sun. The bees just do bee stuff.

They help different things. Bees will help the local flowers and plants, solar panels will cut carbon emissions. But boosting plants doesn't cut carbon emissions since the carbon isn't sequestered, it'll go back to the atmosphere once the plant decomposes.

So if you like the look of flowers or want honey, go with bees. If you want to lower carbon emissions, go solar.

Are 4 solar panels enough?

Has anyone put into the equation how much energy is consumed in the production of solar panels ??...😏

Neither of them will have any significant impact we are all already fucked.