Do what the French do.

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applegrove (133,247 posts)

Do what the French do.



https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127190299

First off, who is paying for all this? Taxpayers or are you forcing business to foot the bill? Second of all you idiots should just move to Europe and show us how its done. You won't like it.

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I don't know about wherever applegrove lives, but schools and companies here in Silicon Valley have been doing this with their covered parking lots ("car parks" is Brit-speak, BTW) and buildings for a decade or two. The two issues that limit this here is that many parking lots are not covered, so it's not a simple as, "Slap solar panels on it and you're done." As for buildings, many older buildings roofs were designed before HVAC became common and are fully- or over-loaded with the addition of HVAC on the rooves. My previous employer's roof was so overloaded that it had a partial roof collapse.

But if the Enviros stop hijacking farmland for solar farms, that would be good.

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When I saw the title, I thought this was going to be another DU call to violence against the wealthy and powerful.