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America? Their city-planning policies of mid-century are an internationally known blunder. and apparently most places thus ruined haven't recovered since. Thankfully not every city has had the same bright idea to tear down imposing, gorgeous buildings in favor of parking lots, pave over parks and turn streets into broad highways with multi-layer overpasses only to make the situation worse.
Apparently one can see the stark difference by comparing the sister towns of Niagara Falls USA and Niagara Falls CA.
Public transport obviously does not ferment crime. That comes from the inhabitants, their socioeconomic status and upbringing.
>>10423
>What happens to the power output of solar panels in winter when they're covered with snow?
Nothing good I bet. That's why panels are to be cleaned. It's also why they are usually mounted at an angle. I hung mine vertically on a SW-facing wall that also happens to be on the side of the plot that is seldom seen so they don't ruin the view. That way they work better in winter, since in December the sun barely rises above the horizon line.
When time comes to redo the roof I'll probably put a whole bunch of those on it too, unless the government will have started taxing those by then.
> I think this is a technology with potential but maybe it's kind of oversold currently, ya know?
It's great for any place that gets plenty of sun. Coincidentally, almost half of humanity lives in the tropics so they can make use of it.
>In the desert with clear skies and tropical sun I am sure they work much better most of the year but not everyone lives in Arizona.
That's more or less what I was getting at in the previous post, indeed. Living way north of the mainland US, they are not nearly as efficient. But since the local infrastructure is being sabotaged by all the "optimizations" that leave maintenance crews understaffed, storms and blizzards have been resulting in ever longer power outages. In this scenario, having a set of batteries and solar panels for riding it out short term and a gas generator for when the outage lasts a few days and the weather isn't favorable, is merited imo. The two systems also work alright in tandem, so while the waveform the cheap gas generator outputs is clearly garbage, thankfully the (even cheaper) inverter still accepts it if you toggle a particular option in its menu.
Basically with solar you can make do without relying on your incompetent government for power if you have enough panels.
In certain sunny countries that also charge an arm and a leg for electricity, it's also economically solid to invest into solar as you break even in a few years.
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