cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/36435067
An usually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria.
The United States is SOOOOO far behind.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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American cities should have looked like this 20+ years ago.
More than that. Carter put solar panels on the White House. Regan took them down. 40+ years of making America worse so the dragons could grow their hordes.
Real people wouldn't even notice from the streets, but rich fucks would see them from their jets and oppose it.
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We can't even manage to do the apartment buildings, let alone the solar panels.
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We just need to have a devastating civil war that destroys most of our existing energy infrastructure and we can get there too 😊
Have I got some good news, then!
There's looking at the bright side!
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Lol this is not a case of Syria being just very environmentally concious and deciding to get far ahead in the solar game. Its a case of not having reliable electricity infrastructure so solar is the only and neccesary option.
Is this ideal? No. Is it good that a lot of people are successfully relying on solar energy? Yes, and developed countries need to catch up.
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. Shit load of battery packs and DC2AC inverters
Almost every house has at least some sort of battery
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?
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.
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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.
I wonder if their government is subsidizing them in some way. But also looking at it most of them are on apartment buildings so it may just be that every tennant in the building chips in to a common fund to get them installed so they get lower electricity costs. Pretty smart investment since those panels last for decades and the cost will be covered way before they reach end of life.
I'm sure electric service has been patchy at best given the war ravaged state of things there.
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But where is the powerplant so the USA military can bomb it to attack civilian infrastructure?
You don't understand. Now they can bomb both in a single hit
So much saving for US taxpayers
If the whole world did this, all the energy corporations would be ruined.
What are we waiting for?
That bastard Godot, probably
What does a free and open source game engine have to do with this?
That makes me so incredibly happy.
Ah, Gary Johnson. I had such high hopes for him in 2016...
It was my first presidential election as an eligible voter, and this was before the alt-right co-opted libertarianism. All I knew was that I hated trump, and I was being bombarded with anti-Clinton propaganda so I didn't like her either (but not for the right reasons, like how she's a neoliberal capitalist).
I didn't know enough about Bernie at the time. I didn't know enough about leftism or the world in general to consider myself a progressive yet. I hadn't even entered the cocoon in which I later metamorphosed into a full-blown socialist throughout my mid-twenties.
Gary Johnson... my first vote in a presidential election... sigh...
Those were... simpler times...
We must be close in age as he was my first vote for President as well.
Man think of all the shit you could have running 24/7 off that and a bunch of car batteries
You don't even need to use car batteries (if you're referring to the lead acid batteries used in ICE vehicles).
LiFePO4 and Na+ are both options available as high-capacity power banks. They're not even crazy expensive either, and they're safer and last longer than Li+ and other options.
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