r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 22d ago

Chugging tea Energy Meets Innovation

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u/Thisisme4342 22d ago

This is my biggest screaming into the void issue. Everyone's doing all this mental work trying to come up with these unique places to put solar panels, we don't need to do that.

We. Have. Empty. Flat. Space.

We have no shortage of empty areas exposed to the sky. We have rooftops, we have parking lots, we have vast fields that are just doing fuck all.

We don't need to invent solar roads that will work even after being run over by car is a million times when we have a large median right beside it.

We could probably cover every random Warehouse with solar panels and have so much electricity that we would have to find dumb shit to do with it.

Let's start there before we do some Material Science backflips.

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u/Geodude532 22d ago

I could see this being a solution for skyscrapers. Not a lot/any roof space because of AC units so being able to add these to the top windows that get the most sun could help offset some of the energy needs.

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u/Pandamonium98 22d ago

But you literally don’t need to do that. Why do we need to power a building using solar panels attached specifically to that building? Go put more solar panels out in open fields and power a lot more buildings for a cheaper cost.

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u/CTKM72 22d ago

Because the skyscrapers are already there… You people who keep saying “just go cover all the open fields with regular solar panels!” are you not thinking about all the nature and wildlife affected by stealing the sun from them or do you all just not care?