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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Parking lots, warehouses, malls, walmarts (and similar superstores), even stretches of in-city highways. There's millions of acres of viable space for solar panels, just no financial incentive to install and maintain it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why is the incentive to install them higher, in rural land and areas that could have been fields or forrest?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If it is, it can't be with much. Maybe regulations and issues with reflections. I can't see it being much cheaper