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cool cool cool, except cities have 25% of their space taken up by parking lots, and land that has solar panels like on the right are pretty much stuck being just solar.
pavement does not need to be heated by the sun. and putting up a solar field needs to include the cost of the land, where as parking lots do not
If your city is 25% parking lots, you have a much deeper problem that solar panels won't solve
I think it's called North America.
The USA has corn fields specifically grown to be turned into FUEL. These crops are a waste. These fields can be used for solar instead.
Yeah, that's the name of the problem.
i mean yes. but this isn’t about those problems specifically. but the average american city is apparently 22% parking lot upon a quick look.
if we are going to have nearly a quarter of a city as dead land, might as well as put up solar panels and lessen our dependency on destructive forms of power generation.
It depends on the city I believe, midwest cities have the land to expand so they can have more parking lots. New York though doesn't have single layer parking areas as profusely.