I wonder if they use batteries and what kind.
Also whether the local electricians have jury rigged some kind of bottom up grid of their own.
Does anyone have information?
An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria.
Submitted 2 months ago by 
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to energy@slrpnk.net
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theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 months ago betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Makes a lot more sense than alternatives!
TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 months ago I kinda want to downvote because why is this unusual? Syria is a war torn country with a shitty grid and many developing and developped countries have plenty of roof top solar?
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Unfortunately, this is more likely pushed by acute necessity than anything else.
Hopefully, we all won’t require a massive war to figure out solar should be invested into.
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Oh hey, something not completely depressing!
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Look at all these teeny tiny humans with their teeny tiny solar panels. All that just to catch the occasional stray photon. What are they compared to the sun almighty?
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Whats a leppo?
IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eventually we’ll so be doing this out of necessity. Just not any time soon, not until something big breaks.
rimu@piefed.social@piefed.social 2 months ago In Google maps you can use satellite mode to look at their roofs. There are some panels but nothing like this.
edit: satellite mode is out of date, see further conversation below.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
oh cool, maybe they did this cause a long time ago during the civil war there was frequent power cuts?
lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
There still are frequent power cuts in Syria.
In Damascus, the power is on for like 8 hours per day.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
At first I thought those were parking garages but then those look like balconies, but the one on the right has windows. Interesting buildings. I wonder what a unit looks like.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You guys this makes Coalie cry 😩 🪨
Linearity@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Implements taxes on solar energy
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Citizen, you have an outstanding debt for the 2 hours of sunlight you’ve enjoyed yesterday.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Offtopic:
An usually
This feels odd, it seems like proper English, with the An since the next word starts with a vowel, but something about it feels off and I might be too dumb to realize what it is.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Because the u in usually is pronounced like the consonant y, like “yew”. We use “a” before consonant sounds.
The u in unusually is pronounced like the vowel sound u, like “uh”. We use “an” before vowel sounds.
This is because two vowel sounds in a row is somewhat awkward and doesn’t flow as easily with how you move your mouth to pronounce things. Using “an” puts an extra consonant sound in between the two vowel sounds.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s odd because wide adoption of rooftop solar is still unusual, so I think the wrong word was used. It should read:
“An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar…”
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I’m guessing the title is a typo, and I’m guessing was meant to be “An UNusually…”
And the “a vs an” rule is more based on the sound that the next word starts with, rather than just the actual letter.
So for “usually”, it’s a “You-” sound
But for “unusually” it’s an “Uh-” sound
- ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Definitely was a typo on my part!
Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That makes so much more sense, thanks!
GoodStuffEh@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I think it’s because “usually” starts with a Y consonant sound (yoo-sually), instead of a vowel sound
cerement@slrpnk.net 2 months ago because while “usually” starts with a ‘u’, we typically pronounce it as if it started with a ‘y’
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This will be a sort of “duh” moment in human history, won’t it.
Snoopy@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 months ago Impressive, thank for sharing this amazing picture 😳👍
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
How similar most of the panels are makes me think someone there’s actually doing distributed infrastructure right :)
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Yep, Bob is making a killing selling them out of his truck.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
As Bob, my truck is not nearly large enough nor my supply chain so consistent
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 months ago
are they solar water heaters or electric panels?
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
They appear to all be PV (electric) panels. The best value for this time and area.
livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
You can see both. Water heaters usually have a tank right behind or above them and it has a silvery tint to it. Blue hued ones are mostly electric panels
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I wonder if the black panels increase the urban heat island effect.
It’s a pretty sharp departure from the light coloured buildings.
- ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Interesting question. From what I gathered from this nature study on that, it seems that solar farms can increase ambient temperature compared to an area with some vegetation, which may be due to the panel preventing the ground from irradiating heat as effectively (by like, bouncing it off the back of the panel) and removing the vegetation that cools the area from evaporation.
But I think on a rooftop that may not have as much thermal mass as the ground, it may not have that effect, and overall should lessen the cooling needs of a building somewhat due to the shade the panels provide. Panels also don’t get quite as hot as an unshielded roof, since they do reflect some infrared energy despite their dark color.
tl:dr, probably not much or at all since they’re on a rooftop, and if it does, it could probably be mitigated by planting more trees and vegetation in the city (which can drop temps up to 8 degrees). But that’s mostly an educated guess.
DivineDev@piefed.social 2 months ago
It’s probably driven by an unreliable power grid, but still great. A lot of solar should help getting a proper grid online anyways
- cerement@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
as unreliable as ERCOT?
eingfoan@infosec.exchange 2 months ago @ProdigalFrog wow #photovoltaik seems a Thing there
swagmoney@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
all hail the sun 🖐️☀️🖐️
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
When your nation falls apart and your city becomes an extensive warzone for years, the main power grid probably isn’t top notch. But the sun works just fine!
If it wasn’t for oil making the middle east insanely rich, imagine what they could do with solar
antrosapien@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
If god would like us all to have unlimited free energy, wouldn’t he put a giant nuclear reactor in sky
huppakee@piefed.social 2 months ago
They can still go all out on solar, it’s not like they’re pumping all that oil for themselves only
YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
there is the idea of exporting solar from Morocco to UK.
There’s others where it’s proposed to build a a high voltage line from Morocco to Spain, France, Germany. Eventually, they’ll upgrade the grid to be able to move power from one region to another.
Same thing in the states, southern states generate for the north in the winter and in the summer the north to the south to help with high demand from AC.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Looks cool as hell
artifex@piefed.social 2 months ago
Plant some more trees and rooftop gardens and you’ve got an official Solarpunk setting
keepthepace@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Quite frankly, trees inside cities are decorative. If you truly care about ecology and the ecosystem, you look at the forestry on a national or regional level. Theoretically, having the densest and hence the smallest cities possibles would be the best for the overall ecosystem. When I see a park in a city I am thinking “they force the city to grow its radius by that much”.
I’d rather have a very dense urban seed surrounded by natural reserves than a chill cityscape with a few scattered parks that are not big enough to sustain a full ecosystem.
tobebannedbygaymods@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
its not just aleppo , the entire country is filled with Solar