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Peter du Toit

@greensofshade yeah we have to work what is*already* there.

Of course, as you say we don’t need that many cars, but it would take a while to remove them from the system. In the meantime this is a great way to continue with electrification

18 August at 7:49 | Open on mastodon.green
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Margret Kuarell

@peterdutoit building more parking lots? Finding excuses to keep them?

no ... i don't think so?

18 August at 7:51 | Open on mastodon.social
johnaldis

@greensofshade @peterdutoit Surely since this makes car parks more expensive to build, it will actually *discourage* building more car parks. And any that are already there but not generating enough income to justify covering them with panels will also need to be decommissioned.

Of course I’m hoping for more solar panels from this, but we should also see fewer car parks out of it, so if that’s your priority (and it’s a good one) then you should be happy?

18 August at 8:22 | Open on mas.to
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@johnaldis @greensofshade @peterdutoit

Good point, but if that's the case and car parks are discouraged, it'll be interesting to see the ultimate effect on car users and how they lobby governments.

Frankly, I think we need to tackle car production and our car mind-set at the same time as solar panels for car parks.

18 August at 8:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Frank Burgenstein

@peterdutoit
Exactly.
And to have it as a legal norm would be helping very much and I'd love to have it in Germany as well.

Example:
Biggest employer in my village decided to extend their parking for their staff. As they are also the biggest tax payer this request was approved by the municipality. So land was purchased from a farmer and farm land converted to a car park.
One political party came with "should we not demand the company to erect photovoltaic panels on top of the car park" but the major and the other parties did not want to cause the extra expenditure for the company (did I mention they are the biggest tax payer?) and now we have a car park without PV.

In my humble opinion this option should not exist. Learn from France!

@greensofshade
Your solid state of neo-Luddism is not helpful for this discussion I think. We need to transform energy sources to renewable energies in order to decarbonise and we need to do that at a large scale very quickly.

Demanding "no cars" and "wildlife" in an industrial compound in Pretoria - well, polite Englishmen would say *nice idea* 👋

#ClimateCrisis #Mitigation #Electrification

@peterdutoit
Exactly.
And to have it as a legal norm would be helping very much and I'd love to have it in Germany as well.

Example:
Biggest employer in my village decided to extend their parking for their staff. As they are also the biggest tax payer this request was approved by the municipality. So land was purchased from a farmer and farm land converted to a car park.
One political party came with "should we not demand the company to erect photovoltaic panels on top of the car park" but the major...

18 August at 8:52 | Open on kolektiva.social
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