The United States is SOOOOO far behind.
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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.
Build the mass transit first, then the apartments make sense.
It doesn't work that way. Unfortunately, the demand has to exist first in order to get the transit approved; otherwise the car-brains call it "useless" and win. You have to force through the density and make it painful to drive before there's a critical mass of support for it.
Or... hear me out... and this can only occur in a society capable of critical thinking, so it would never happen in america, but...
How about a phased-implementation in which transit and apartments are built concurrently, according to a plan aiming towards the final result.
If you build the transit first, it needs a giant parking lot. If you build the apartments first, they need giant parking lots. If you build them simultaneously and plan them to finish around the same time, you don't need parking lots.
We just need to have a devastating civil war that destroys most of our existing energy infrastructure and we can get there too 😊
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.
I think you interpreted my post as praise for apparent Syrian environmentalism, rather than criticism that a country which has experienced so much strife has that, while the United States has nothing like that.
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
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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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?
Why not because of that and 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.
After I read your comment and the title I might see an angle:
Unusual adoption
It's a stretch to interprete that considering the war and the need for electricity resulting in the easiest way to get access to independant electricity is solar (because water can't do it and neither can wind).
But depending on the cultural lense it's
A: Duh. Obviously we need solar because the US bombed our grid to dust
or
B: Huh. That sure is a high number of solar panels. My city doesnt have that many panels.
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By the US? Do you mean IS, Assad, and Hezbollah?
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.
Unless a Bibi or Donnie comes by and drops some bombs. Then thy usually don’t last that long.
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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
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That makes me so incredibly happy.
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?
I'll do you one better - why is Aleppo?
How is Aleppo?
When is Aleppo?
Where is Aleppo?
The Milky Way
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Man think of all the shit you could have running 24/7 off that and a bunch of car batteries
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huh, those roofs look kinda weird and all the same- (takes a closer look) oh it's all solar panels that's actually really cool
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