I wonder if they use batteries and what kind.
Also whether the local electricians have jury rigged some kind of bottom up grid of their own.
Does anyone have information?
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Makes a lot more sense than alternatives!
Unfortunately, this is more likely pushed by acute necessity than anything else.
Hopefully, we all won't require a massive war to figure out solar should be invested into.
Hopefully, we all won’t require a massive war to figure out solar should be invested into.
The Iran war is kinda doing just that, though renewable was going up pretty steadily even before it.
Oh hey, something not completely depressing!
It just needs some trees to make it not depressing. Still, it's far better than oil and gas.
I meant a thing, not the picture generally. Id add some variety to the architecture as well.
There are quite a few trees lining the streets and down the middle of the road.
I kinda want to downvote because why is this unusual? Syria is a war torn country with a shitty grid and many developing and developped countries have plenty of roof top solar?
And also a huge need for AC, when solar is typically at the peak.
I wondered when I visited Malaysia why there was not more solar panels around, and a local explained to me that it was mostly lobbying and corruption, with local electricity providers making it illegal.
I don't wish on anyone what Syria went through, but I am also hopeful that when systems breaks, workarounds exist and may in the long term improve the overall situation.
Look at all these teeny tiny humans with their teeny tiny solar panels. All that just to catch the occasional stray photon. What are they compared to the sun almighty?
Eventually we'll so be doing this out of necessity. Just not any time soon, not until something big breaks.
Big things are breaking regularly. Monsters are making choices to keep them less visible to regular people.
The Strait of Hormuz is something big.
Unfortunately it's not very wide
Well things are all going great. Can't imagine anything breaking. Can't imagine electrical grids getting overwhelmed from infrastructure neglect and a surge in demand or fossil fuels becoming scarce or their flows being interrupted. When was the last time any of that stuff happened?
maybe the data-center upgrades will payoff when the ai bubble pops and everyone drives ev because of gas prices. infrastructure pre-built. ev charging cheaper at night so off peak already best on existing grid.
Those things are going to get scrapped so fast when America falls. Ya know how eventually locals used the stones from the pyramids, the lighthouse of Alexandria, and the Roman colosseum? Well, that but scrapping chips and copper from abandoned data centers.
I love your optimism. Let us pray
And STILL I hear dumb shits in the US say "solar isn't feasible"
Motherfuckers then why does literally every other country have tons of solar plants, rooftop installations, balcony installations and some packed away they can pull out when the power cuts out? Why do major companies put massive solar farms next to their new factories? Why are people interested in fossil fuels spending so much goddamn money telling people solar sucks? If it sucked, people wouldn't use it.
People against rooftop are the craziest to me. Not only does it give you essentially free energy, it also shades the roof, cooling the building just by existing. Every factory on earth should cover their roofs with solar panels. It just makes too much sense not to. Even from a capitalist perspective, it's stupid not to. And lost hours due to heat stress are common in manufacturing, throw up some solar panels and lower your indoor temps while shoving money in your pockets from energy savings. Heat stress injuries go down, OSHA rating goes up, insurance goes down. It just doesn't make sense to fight solar.
Because oil people don't make money from solar.
They do make money from solar. Just not enough to their liking.
Returns on investments in fossil fuels typically range between 10-20 percent, while for a renewables project, 5-8 percent is the norm, Reuters reported in June 2023. “It’s also about the volatility of profitability,” Christophers says. Meanwhile, if the price of the feedstock falls, that usually means fossil fuels are cheaper – and thus the level of profitability can still be maintained. Renewable energy projects in contrast must contend with costs which are largely upfront and have to be met regardless of fluctuations in electricity prices. That makes investment riskier – and therefore costlier, cutting profitability. (source)
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When your nation falls apart and your city becomes an extensive warzone for years, the main power grid probably isn't top notch. But the sun works just fine!
If it wasn't for oil making the middle east insanely rich, imagine what they could do with solar
If god would like us all to have unlimited free energy, wouldn't he put a giant nuclear reactor in sky
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In Google maps you can use satellite mode to look at their roofs. There are some panels but nothing like this.
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oh cool, maybe they did this cause a long time ago during the civil war there was frequent power cuts?
There still are frequent power cuts in Syria.
In Damascus, the power is on for like 8 hours per day.
oh, i thought it ended.
Well there is still a province that is under Druze grasp so I wouldn't say the civil war ended.
Well, Assad is gone at least but it is still pretty unstable there.
And the people are not educated enough to call for real democracy, they are happy with the majority Sunni in power.
alr tanks for the info.
Looks cool as hell
Plant some more trees and rooftop gardens and you’ve got an official Solarpunk setting
Quite frankly, trees inside cities are decorative. If you truly care about ecology and the ecosystem, you look at the forestry on a national or regional level. Theoretically, having the densest and hence the smallest cities possibles would be the best for the overall ecosystem. When I see a park in a city I am thinking "they force the city to grow its radius by that much".
I'd rather have a very dense urban seed surrounded by natural reserves than a chill cityscape with a few scattered parks that are not big enough to sustain a full ecosystem.
First of all, "merely decorative" has a big impact on our physiological and psychological well-being; urban greening appears to be able to improve things from respiratory difficulties to stress, anxiety and depression .
Second, "merely decorative" isn't even true. Trees lower both surface and air temperature in cities in a meaningful way (on the order of a couple of degrees on a well-treed street -- that can be the difference between "ah, it's a nice day for a walk" and "holy crap it's hot out".
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