Covering large parking lots with solar panels is an idea that goes back decades but in America at least it’s an idea that has never really taken off.

What is the reason for that? Is it due to the overall cost or is there something else that keeps Walmart, Target, Costco, Sams Club, Malls, etc. from covering their parking lots with these panels and selling the power?

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Having large parking lots at all in the first place is already Doing It Wrong, so IDGAF if there are solar panels on top of them. They’d just be one more thing to bulldoze in order to rebuild the place properly.

    What we need are solar panels on the roofs of mixed-use mid-rise buildings in walkable areas.

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      3 months ago

      how are you gonna sell more cars that way? petroleum doesn’t buy itself, you know