cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/36435067
An usually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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Does no one remember this place being decimated by the US and Russia?? It's not unusual, its because there is probably a lack of reliable electricity infrastructure
I live there. I can confirm, I believe right now it's because our gov cannot pay for it. The price of power has increased by 800% since Jan 2026. Much more than the avg citizen can afford
Where do you folks source your solar panel from?
China, just like the rest of the world. Solar panels are cheap AF
China
I'd say China and resellers
So these are systems that work when the main power is down? Do people have battery packs too?
Yes.
Tech Altar video about tech in Syria
Yes. Shit load of battery packs and DC2AC inverters
Almost every house has at least some sort of battery
Yup, they have had a total systems collapse. They are there because they have not choice not due to any forward thinking or some other policy.
We, the West, wilk be three too. Degrowth wilk happen, the questions is, nie voluntary it will be.
The US is normally the country that bombs the middle east but in Aleppo it was almost exclusively Russia and the Assad regime that did the bombings. Saudi Arabia (and to a lesser extent Turkey) were the ones who sponsored ISIS. The US for once actually sponsored the relatively good guys in the conflict by backing the AANES ("Rojava").
This is not to say that the US had any moral reasons to choose the AANES. It was strictly geopolitics but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Broken clock that never goes right?
By the US? Do you mean IS, Assad, and Hezbollah?
Why not because of that amd because it's a great thing to have?
Why does almost everything here seem to have a need to be absolute?
Same. Nothing in the original post hints that op was unaware of the war.