Yes yes yes I lived long enough to see solar really take off.
"...the reservoir could hold enough solar panels to power all the municipal buildings and streetlights, saving the city more than $500,000 each year." and "...clean power and lack of a land footprint, but because they also conserve water by preventing evaporation."
@peeppeepcircus It makes financial sense so I'm confident it'll happen.
Also studies showing crop yields go up under raised solar arrays. So. LET'S GO
@b4cks4w @peeppeepcircus Plus distributed generation makes the grid safer/more stable. Win/win.
@b4cks4w in #centralcalifornia ‘s #agriculture region #centralvelley, large industrial #solar farms replace crop land tho. And replace it with a very sterile environment (kill all the flora & fauna underneath & within the fences) so Big Solar is destructive and dystopian around me still. But with the heatwaves thanks to climate change killing our plants, we’ve needed to shade our food crops from the new sun laser, so #agrivoltaics would make more sense. 🤷
keep hoping to see that change happen🤞
@peeppeepcircus yep, just need to raise them up
@b4cks4w the large scale ones installed already in the distopian style are probably a lost cause already, already built a certain way with protocols/leases/financing in place for decades.
perhaps if more consumers started actively asking for Agrivoltaics or urban rooftop/parking lot solar that might help.
Hmmm, wonder if anyone started a petition for parking lot solar to be installed at Walmarts to accompany that article? 🤔
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@b4cks4w 🙏 you rock.
@b4cks4w 🤞
I’m also really hoping to see it in urban centers on commercial rooftops and parking lots. Someone did a study exactly how much Walmart parking lots could power us if they had solar.