julianthegypsy
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I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but solar is always talked about as wasting agricultural land, when there are thousands of warehouses and factories with massive roofs sitting idle that could quite easily be covered in panels. Car parks could be covered in canopies that would also provide shade for the cars underneath them. Win win. Last I heard you could only get permission to grid tie 5kw on a house and 10kw on a commercial building. That's ridiculous, and purely because the power companies prefer their current central system with a few massive power stations and don't want to deal with it. That has to change. Also worth noting that panels get hot and work best cool. Shouldn't be that difficult to cool them and send the heat underground to a heat store and use it for heating in cold weather. Not a magic bullet, but another big piece of the jigsaw puzzle.