Suprised noone mentioned it yet: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/SmogSolarPanels

TL;DR - Make bots single use (returning frames), Solar panels occasionally break.

I've been playing Factorio for some time now, but one thing that continuously annoys me are the logistics bots. We all ... occasionally (maybe influenced by global pollution?) take some amount of damage and stop ...

... bot wandered past, they attacked it and hit the solar panel and then began just fighting the panels until repair bots showed up.

So, they were going to attack the most polluting emitters "nearby" - (I bet it's the local pollution maximum ?) - but were distracted by a logibot, then went on a rampage ...

... shouldn't be able to path outside of the pollution cloud to get to the factory.
Biter target ... spot in the middle of my base attacking some solar panels. After I killed them, I looked at the path they took to get there: they had originally targeted some assemblers and chose a path there. This ...

... First of all I suggest to increase pollution influence on the factory itself, not only biters. Examples :

Solar panel produce less power in polluted regions (thanks to numerous previous suggesters).
Polluted water cannot be used in boilers and chemical reactions.
Robots fly slower in ...

... a big base, electricity is one of the biggest pollution producers. Right now we have boiler-based, solar and nuclear power. Now here are the problems with them:

Boiler-based: This way is good enough for ... of space needed is gigantic. Not only for solar panels but also for accumulators. The resources for a ...

... storage
* Accumulator discharge/charge speed
* Solar panel effectivity
* Mining drill speed
* Belt speed
* Robot power efficiency
* Robot battery capacity
* Robot cargo size
* Train acceleration
* Train ... speed
* Electricity efficiency
* Lower pollution
* Infinite levels of power armour with ...

Pretty interesting concept. I like it!
+1

... or suggestions.

So, the main idea is that solar panels would be less efficient depending on pollution (in that chunk of map) and in highly polluted areas almost next to useless. That would give the player more focus on the pollution factor except just to keep it low to avoid enemy attacks. The ...

... run into an issue...I never need to use it. Solar power, while requiring a lot of space ... which reduces the maximum solar output per panel that day from 1%-50% reduction.

Rainy: A ... ceiling.)

Windy: This would currently affect pollution, pushing it all in one direction at a ...

There are already a lot of that idea as suggestions:
search.php?keywords=solar+panel+pollution&fid%5B0%5D=6

Just a thought the more pollution a solar panel has over it the less efficient it should be

How about pollution-dependent efficiency, would make sense logicically:
The more pollution in the chunk the panel is standing in, the less efficient it gets.
(In real life rain washes solar panels but everything in the atmosphere lowers light levels hitting the panel)

... point of removing it all and going all in on solar power instead because that's much easier ... of power during the day thanks to solar panels. So why not USE some of that power to preheat ... no power or components to run and makes no pollution at all - green energy!). Obviously by laws of ...

... battery. Moving in this mode, it produces no pollution.

3. When the battery reaches approximately ... to the diesel engine but more cleaner like the solar panel.

Then obviously the steam train will work like the current diesel and just use a different asset to make it actually a steam engine instead of ...

... So, a 3-blade wind turbine will work like a Solar Panel around the clock, but an 8-blade one produces a bit more than a steam engines but consumes so much lubricant that the Chemical Plants and Refineries required would be more pollution than the boilers for a steam plant. Efficiency modules would be ...

... if it was put into a regular Boiler) with no pollution. Later on (with about twice as many resources/twice as much research as a Solar Panel) you can make a Photobioreactor, which duplicates Algae that goes in during daylight hours.

Now, this is my first suggestion, so it sucks. Everyone's first ...

... normal accumulators would only charge if your solar panels could power your entire power grid plus extra, otherwise they'd never charge.

How does this work in the game right now? If I create a ... amount of steam and the same amount of net pollution gain over time, no matter when the ...