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Japan Has No Space for Solar Farms Apart From Old Golf Courses (www.bloomberg.com)

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The result is that a relic of Japan’s economic bubble is playing an unlikely role in the country’s energy transition. For the past decade, defunct golf courses have been vital to solar growth. About 9% of Japan’s utility-scale solar capacity is on former golf courses, according to an analysis of a BloombergNEF data that includes arrays with capacity of 0.9 megawatts or greater.

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[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You do have to be careful though, sometimes those tarpaper roofs are trying to keep heat inside the building, or trying to keep lines from freezing in the winter.

That being said, there's plenty of places in Japan where you could throw up a canopy of solar panels tied into the grid.

[–] DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Railways :-)

Edit: https://www.sun-ways.ch/en Already in test in Swiss

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

150km/h is high speed? The Japanese will laugh you out of the room. And the prototype is designed for just 70km/h.

They will shake apart if proper trains run over them.

[–] DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Try running faster in mountains. Good luck.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Highspeed train to plane route?

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

Problem is always the landing

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Was also going to say high ways

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

tokyo has a lot of buildings, put it on top of every building possible.