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[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Worth pointing out that covering parking lots with solar became the law this year in France. A study there says that if half France's parking lots were covered in solar panels their output would exceed all of France's nuclear power stations.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/09/new-law-50-solar-power-over-parking-lots-in-france/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Rather than being uplifting, that just exposes just how much of our cities we have let completely go to waste by having them be asphalt lots

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Ty for sharing this!