• TheMadCodger@piefed.socialEnglish
        58·
        15 天前

        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.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        16 天前

        Real people wouldn’t even notice from the streets, but rich fucks would see them from their jets and oppose it.

      • grue@lemmy.world
        12·
        16 天前

        We can’t even manage to do the apartment buildings, let alone the solar panels.

          • grue@lemmy.world
            1·
            15 天前

            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.

            • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
              1·
              15 天前

              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.

    • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip
      34·
      15 天前

      We just need to have a devastating civil war that destroys most of our existing energy infrastructure and we can get there too 😊

    • MrKoyun@lemmy.world
      6·
      15 天前

      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.

      • obvs@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 天前

        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.

  • shameless@lemmy.world
    74·
    15 天前

    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

    • lonesomeCat@lemmy.mlEnglish
      23·
      15 天前

      I live there. I can confirm, I believe right now it’s because our gov cannot pay for it. The price of power has increased by 800% since Jan 2026. Much more than the avg citizen can afford

    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
      13·
      15 天前

      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.

    • fun_times@lemmy.world
      12·
      15 天前

      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.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      15 天前

      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?

      • ptu@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        15 天前

        Same. Nothing in the original post hints that op was unaware of the war.

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          15 天前

          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.

      • MrKoyun@lemmy.world
        1·
        15 天前

        Its a great thing to have, totally. But if this was happening with the primary reason of it being a great thing to have we would be seeing similiar sights in other, developed places too.

  • Kirp123@lemmy.world
    23·
    16 天前

    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.

            • Telemachus93@slrpnk.net
              1·
              5 天前

              I’m neither. You’re the misinformed one here, and the people who downvoted me as well. Go to the link you provided.

              • click the link to the article for Ahmed Al-Sharaa
              • click the link to the article for Al-Nusra Front
              • see “part of” section in the overview: Al-Qaeda

              Yes, they split several years ago. Insofar I have exaggerated. Are they substantially better in terms of authorianism and religious fundamentalism? I seriously doubt it.

            • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
              2·
              15 天前

              Ah yeah, Wikipedia – an ultimate source of symbolic truth, which points exactly at al-qaueda if you are not deliberately ignore it, morron

              • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                15 天前

                Al Qaeda and Isis aren’t the same thing, even acknowledging al-Sharaa was a part of al-Qaeda for several years and Al Nusra is just a spin off of AQ. Al Nusra and Isis have been fighting one another for over a decade.

    • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      15 天前

      Unless a Bibi or Donnie comes by and drops some bombs. Then thy usually don’t last that long.

  • unalivejoy@lemmy.zip
    19·
    15 天前

    But where is the powerplant so the USA military can bomb it to attack civilian infrastructure?

      • MashedTech@lemmy.world
        1·
        15 天前

        There should be a politician in every building too. For triple savings! Bomb the powerplant, civilians and politicians! All in one go!

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      15 天前

      You don’t even need to use car batteries (if you’re referring to the lead acid batteries used in ICE vehicles).

      LiFePO4 and Na+ are both options available as high-capacity power banks. They’re not even crazy expensive either, and they’re safer and last longer than Li+ and other options.

  • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    15 天前

    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