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
There's others where it's proposed to build a a high voltage line from Morocco to Spain, France, Germany. Eventually, they'll upgrade the grid to be able to move power from one region to another.
Same thing in the states, southern states generate for the north in the winter and in the summer the north to the south to help with high demand from AC.
It's more like elite psychology. Positions of power self-select for a very specific kind of bad person, who would rather die, than have peasants become any more free.
This effect exists, as well amongst left wing leaders, yet we do observe more diminishing inequalities in countries ruled by left-wing coalitions.
I do think that power-seeking individuals will tend to be anti-equality, yet to some extent, democracy works as the left-wing variety of these individuals have to conquer power by increasing redistribution.
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)
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.
I just let them spout off for as long as they want. Then I calmly tell them I haven't paid an electric bill for over five years. Whatever their argument was is moot.
2 years ago I installed 30 500watt panels on my roof. It's been amazing!
I'm in Canada, so I can't be off grid at all, but during the summer I generate way more than I use and in the winter I take essentially what I over produced in the summer, so I'm net zero usage from the grid in a year.
All my heat is electric and I drive an electric car.
My break even is 18 years, so it's definitely not for everyone, but I can see a future where electricity is almost free and we burn zero fossil fuels. I doubt I'll be alive for this, but if we all don't do this, no one else will be alive either
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.
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".
Yes, I was a but cynical also for the sake of conciseness, but there is indeed and interesting point in green cities, that's one question on which ecologism and environmentalism differ. The question is whether you are trying to preserve the whole ecosystem or an environment in which humans feel good.
To be honest, I don't want to live in a concrete jungle. I think inhumane to live in a super dense city totally disconnected to nature. But I also would like that we collectively accept that this is a preference that is harmful to the ecosystem and that it is sometimes okay to have such preferences, if we manage to make them sustainable.
20 years ago a urbanist I was working with, when we were doing city simulations to help offset CO2 footprint told me "you know, the ugly truth is that if we want to lower our CO2 emissions to the max, we should all live in skyscrapers on top of a school, supermarket and incinerator."
Thing is, we need to recognize the tension between an enjoyable environment, wildlife preservation, human health, the ecosystem's health... And we need to see further than the current, petty, political compartimentalization of these questions. I wish one day we start consider these questions a bit more seriously
Yup. A lot of architecture or city design in West Asia is created with ivory color due to its reflecting more heat than any other color. This lack of variety of color and repeating building design is contributing to the "depressiveness".
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.
Google Earth has data up through June 27, 2024. Check around the Salloum Hospital and Syrian Arab Red Cross Hospital. That area around the hospitals and to the NNE looks like nearly every roof has panels. Could also be a more recent picture and more panels may have been installed in the past year or two.
Hmm my Google Maps shows the same 2026 date but when I compare to the Google Earth June 27, 2024 images I'm seeing the same cars in the same exact spots, like the white car right outside of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Hospital
That may be correct, I always thought that was the date the imagery was taken, but I typically go to Earth first because you can easily scrub back and forth along the timeline. Interestingly, if you go back to the 2023 images you can see that 2024 was a big year for solar already. That pace continuing into 2025 and 2026 could definitely result in the area looking like the image in the OP. Wish we had location data from the original so we could see when and where it was taken as I'm super curious now. And its a slow day at work so I have time to dig around lol
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?
This feels odd, it seems like proper English, with the An since the next word starts with a vowel, but something about it feels off and I might be too dumb to realize what it is.
Because the u in usually is pronounced like the consonant y, like “yew”. We use “a” before consonant sounds.
The u in unusually is pronounced like the vowel sound u, like “uh”. We use “an” before vowel sounds.
This is because two vowel sounds in a row is somewhat awkward and doesn’t flow as easily with how you move your mouth to pronounce things. Using “an” puts an extra consonant sound in between the two vowel sounds.
This video goes into Syria's electric grid, and how people have setup their solar installs. It shows batteries are used quite thoroughly, and doesn't appear to be grid-tied or formed into a micro-grid, AFAICT.
Interesting question. From what I gathered from this nature study on that, it seems that solar farms can increase ambient temperature compared to an area with some vegetation, which may be due to the panel preventing the ground from irradiating heat as effectively (by like, bouncing it off the back of the panel) and removing the vegetation that cools the area from evaporation.
But I think on a rooftop that may not have as much thermal mass as the ground, it may not have that effect, and overall should lessen the cooling needs of a building somewhat due to the shade the panels provide. Panels also don't get quite as hot as an unshielded roof, since they do reflect some infrared energy despite their dark color.
tl:dr, probably not much or at all since they're on a rooftop, and if it does, it could probably be mitigated by planting more trees and vegetation in the city (which can drop temps up to 8 degrees). But that's mostly an educated guess.
At first I thought those were parking garages but then those look like balconies, but the one on the right has windows. Interesting buildings. I wonder what a unit looks like.
You can see both. Water heaters usually have a tank right behind or above them and it has a silvery tint to it. Blue hued ones are mostly electric panels
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.
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SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works · 175 pts · 123d
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
huppakee@piefed.social · 30 pts · 122d
They can still go all out on solar, it's not like they're pumping all that oil for themselves only
YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf · 18 pts · 122d
there is the idea of exporting solar from Morocco to UK.
There's others where it's proposed to build a a high voltage line from Morocco to Spain, France, Germany. Eventually, they'll upgrade the grid to be able to move power from one region to another.
Same thing in the states, southern states generate for the north in the winter and in the summer the north to the south to help with high demand from AC.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 122d
The western countries are just needlessly delaying energy independence. They are hostile to life itself.
keepthepace@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 122d
We elect conservatives, they are afraid of change. It is as simple as that.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 122d
It's more like elite psychology. Positions of power self-select for a very specific kind of bad person, who would rather die, than have peasants become any more free.
keepthepace@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 122d
This effect exists, as well amongst left wing leaders, yet we do observe more diminishing inequalities in countries ruled by left-wing coalitions.
I do think that power-seeking individuals will tend to be anti-equality, yet to some extent, democracy works as the left-wing variety of these individuals have to conquer power by increasing redistribution.
keepthepace@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 122d
Before the Arab Spring there was even a more ambitious plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec#/media/File:DESERTEC-Map_large.jpg
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 122d
Long distance power transmission also effectively makes the day length longer, lessening the need for storage.
antrosapien@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 122d
If god would like us all to have unlimited free energy, wouldn't he put a giant nuclear reactor in sky
SARGE@startrek.website · 106 pts · 122d
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 34 pts · 122d
Because oil people don't make money from solar.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 23 pts · 122d
They do make money from solar. Just not enough to their liking.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 122d
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.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 122d
I just let them spout off for as long as they want. Then I calmly tell them I haven't paid an electric bill for over five years. Whatever their argument was is moot.
chunes@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 122d
I see solar panels pretty often in the US rural county I live in
SARGE@startrek.website · 7 pts · 122d
raskal@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 122d
2 years ago I installed 30 500watt panels on my roof. It's been amazing!
I'm in Canada, so I can't be off grid at all, but during the summer I generate way more than I use and in the winter I take essentially what I over produced in the summer, so I'm net zero usage from the grid in a year.
All my heat is electric and I drive an electric car.
My break even is 18 years, so it's definitely not for everyone, but I can see a future where electricity is almost free and we burn zero fossil fuels. I doubt I'll be alive for this, but if we all don't do this, no one else will be alive either
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 47 pts · 123d
Looks cool as hell
artifex@piefed.social · 30 pts · 123d
Plant some more trees and rooftop gardens and you’ve got an official Solarpunk setting
keepthepace@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 122d
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.
artifex@piefed.social · 3 pts · 122d
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".
keepthepace@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 122d
Yes, I was a but cynical also for the sake of conciseness, but there is indeed and interesting point in green cities, that's one question on which ecologism and environmentalism differ. The question is whether you are trying to preserve the whole ecosystem or an environment in which humans feel good.
To be honest, I don't want to live in a concrete jungle. I think inhumane to live in a super dense city totally disconnected to nature. But I also would like that we collectively accept that this is a preference that is harmful to the ecosystem and that it is sometimes okay to have such preferences, if we manage to make them sustainable.
20 years ago a urbanist I was working with, when we were doing city simulations to help offset CO2 footprint told me "you know, the ugly truth is that if we want to lower our CO2 emissions to the max, we should all live in skyscrapers on top of a school, supermarket and incinerator."
Thing is, we need to recognize the tension between an enjoyable environment, wildlife preservation, human health, the ecosystem's health... And we need to see further than the current, petty, political compartimentalization of these questions. I wish one day we start consider these questions a bit more seriously
Allero@lemmy.today · 38 pts · 122d
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.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 122d
The Iran war is kinda doing just that, though renewable was going up pretty steadily even before it.
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 35 pts · 122d
Oh hey, something not completely depressing!
faust0@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 122d
It just needs some trees to make it not depressing. Still, it's far better than oil and gas.
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 122d
I meant a thing, not the picture generally. Id add some variety to the architecture as well.
faust0@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 122d
Yup. A lot of architecture or city design in West Asia is created with ivory color due to its reflecting more heat than any other color. This lack of variety of color and repeating building design is contributing to the "depressiveness".
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 121d
Didnt mean the color. Dont love it but see the utility. Meant the shapes.
scholar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
There are quite a few trees lining the streets and down the middle of the road.
DivineDev@piefed.social · 24 pts · 123d
It's probably driven by an unreliable power grid, but still great. A lot of solar should help getting a proper grid online anyways
cerement@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 122d
as unreliable as ERCOT?
IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 122d
Eventually we'll so be doing this out of necessity. Just not any time soon, not until something big breaks.
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 122d
Big things are breaking regularly. Monsters are making choices to keep them less visible to regular people.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 122d
The Strait of Hormuz is something big.
echodot@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 122d
Unfortunately it's not very wide
lefaucet@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 122d
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?
m3t00@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 122d
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.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 122d
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.
lefaucet@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 122d
I love your optimism. Let us pray
swagmoney@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 123d
all hail the sun 🖐️☀️🖐️
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 122d
You guys this makes Coalie cry 😩 🪨
Snoopy@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 13 pts · 122d
Impressive, thank for sharing this amazing picture 😳👍
rimu@piefed.social · 12 pts · 122d
In Google maps you can use satellite mode to look at their roofs. There are some panels but nothing like this.
edit: satellite mode is out of date, see further conversation below.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 122d
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/with-sanctions-lifted-syria-looks-to-solar-power-as-more-than-a-patchwork-fix-to-its-energy-crisis/
Looks like a recent phenomenon
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 122d
So they could have done it ANYTIME but didn't.
wpb@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 122d
No. Don't underestimate the impact of sanctions.
LikeableLime@piefed.social · 10 pts · 122d
Google Earth has data up through June 27, 2024. Check around the Salloum Hospital and Syrian Arab Red Cross Hospital. That area around the hospitals and to the NNE looks like nearly every roof has panels. Could also be a more recent picture and more panels may have been installed in the past year or two.
rimu@piefed.social · 4 pts · 122d
My Google Maps says 2026 on the bottom of it.
I've highlighted the solar panels I could see, around Salloum Hospital:
It's great to see so many but it's way more scattered and patchy than in the OP photo.
LikeableLime@piefed.social · 8 pts · 122d
Hmm my Google Maps shows the same 2026 date but when I compare to the Google Earth June 27, 2024 images I'm seeing the same cars in the same exact spots, like the white car right outside of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Hospital
rimu@piefed.social · 8 pts · 122d
Ahh, so maybe on Google Maps that's just a copyright statement rather than really when the imagery was taken. So I'm looking at quite old information.
LikeableLime@piefed.social · 6 pts · 122d
That may be correct, I always thought that was the date the imagery was taken, but I typically go to Earth first because you can easily scrub back and forth along the timeline. Interestingly, if you go back to the 2023 images you can see that 2024 was a big year for solar already. That pace continuing into 2025 and 2026 could definitely result in the area looking like the image in the OP. Wish we had location data from the original so we could see when and where it was taken as I'm super curious now. And its a slow day at work so I have time to dig around lol
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 122d
There's this photo from the same location in a Aljazeera article on the area. Apparently they are the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods.
LikeableLime@piefed.social · 4 pts · 122d
Oh thank you, and that's from Jan this year. Haven't found the exact location yet but those neighborhoods are very close to where I was looking
observes_depths@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 121d
I can't find any evidence that this photo is real. Doubt they built all that in 2 years.
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 122d
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?
Linearity@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 122d
Implements taxes on solar energy
merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 122d
Citizen, you have an outstanding debt for the 2 hours of sunlight you've enjoyed yesterday.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 122d
Offtopic:
This feels odd, it seems like proper English, with the An since the next word starts with a vowel, but something about it feels off and I might be too dumb to realize what it is.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 122d
I'm guessing the title is a typo, and I'm guessing was meant to be "An UNusually...."
And the "a vs an" rule is more based on the sound that the next word starts with, rather than just the actual letter.
So for "usually", it's a "You-" sound
But for "unusually" it's an "Uh-" sound
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 122d
That makes so much more sense, thanks!
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 122d
🎉 Glad to be able to help 👍
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 122d
Definitely was a typo on my part!
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 122d
Because the u in usually is pronounced like the consonant y, like “yew”. We use “a” before consonant sounds.
The u in unusually is pronounced like the vowel sound u, like “uh”. We use “an” before vowel sounds.
This is because two vowel sounds in a row is somewhat awkward and doesn’t flow as easily with how you move your mouth to pronounce things. Using “an” puts an extra consonant sound in between the two vowel sounds.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 122d
It’s odd because wide adoption of rooftop solar is still unusual, so I think the wrong word was used. It should read:
“An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar…”
cerement@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 122d
because while “usually” starts with a ‘u’, we typically pronounce it as if it started with a ‘y’
GoodStuffEh@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 122d
I think it's because "usually" starts with a Y consonant sound (yoo-sually), instead of a vowel sound
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 122d
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 9 pts · 122d
oh cool, maybe they did this cause a long time ago during the civil war there was frequent power cuts?
lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 122d
There still are frequent power cuts in Syria.
In Damascus, the power is on for like 8 hours per day.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 122d
oh, i thought it ended.
lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 122d
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.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 122d
alr tanks for the info.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 122d
This will be a sort of "duh" moment in human history, won't it.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 123d
How similar most of the panels are makes me think someone there's actually doing distributed infrastructure right :)
wewbull@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 122d
Yep, Bob is making a killing selling them out of his truck.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 122d
As Bob, my truck is not nearly large enough nor my supply chain so consistent
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 122d
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?
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 122d
This video goes into Syria's electric grid, and how people have setup their solar installs. It shows batteries are used quite thoroughly, and doesn't appear to be grid-tied or formed into a micro-grid, AFAICT.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 123d
I wonder if the black panels increase the urban heat island effect.
It’s a pretty sharp departure from the light coloured buildings.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 26 pts · 123d
Interesting question. From what I gathered from this nature study on that, it seems that solar farms can increase ambient temperature compared to an area with some vegetation, which may be due to the panel preventing the ground from irradiating heat as effectively (by like, bouncing it off the back of the panel) and removing the vegetation that cools the area from evaporation.
But I think on a rooftop that may not have as much thermal mass as the ground, it may not have that effect, and overall should lessen the cooling needs of a building somewhat due to the shade the panels provide. Panels also don't get quite as hot as an unshielded roof, since they do reflect some infrared energy despite their dark color.
tl:dr, probably not much or at all since they're on a rooftop, and if it does, it could probably be mitigated by planting more trees and vegetation in the city (which can drop temps up to 8 degrees). But that's mostly an educated guess.
eingfoan@infosec.exchange · 5 pts · 123d
@ProdigalFrog wow #photovoltaik seems a Thing there
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 122d
At first I thought those were parking garages but then those look like balconies, but the one on the right has windows. Interesting buildings. I wonder what a unit looks like.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d
are they solar water heaters or electric panels?
livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 123d
You can see both. Water heaters usually have a tank right behind or above them and it has a silvery tint to it. Blue hued ones are mostly electric panels
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 122d
They appear to all be PV (electric) panels. The best value for this time and area.
TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 1 pts · 122d
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?
keepthepace@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 122d
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.
tobebannedbygaymods@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 57d
its not just aleppo , the entire country is filled with Solar
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 122d
Whats a leppo?