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sepdet · 7 months

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(photos of solar panel covered shade structures over parking lots. The lower right one is being cleaned by workers on a bucket crane using a ginormous hi-tech squeegie.)

Look, now that we've moved beyond the hypothetical, with "new normal" heat waves of 110° for several days in a row, shaded parking places are the best. And they power lots of recharging stations for our plug-ins and EVs .

#little california things #one of my nerdy hobbies #is watching my city becoming encrusted with these things year by year on google maps #like some kind of benevolent kudzu #the schools and colleges started it about ten years ago #and some hospitals and libraries #and now even a little day care center #to the point that when city hall's parking lot was just torn up and renovated to add more spaces #for its adjacent park and sports fields #they removed median strips with tall rows of trees that shaded the spaces #i was upset but figured it must be time for them to add solar panel parking shadss #and i was honestly shocked to see it was just to design a new layout to fit more cars #like yeas we needed that on game days #but how dare you take trees down #and nkt reduce carbon footpring #but accommodate its opposite?#this is the city that prides itself on sustainbility #even the dinky little day care center has solar parking #what gives?

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