{"id":13252,"date":"2015-06-08T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/forget-desert-solar-farms-we-can-get-more-than-enough-solar-energy-from-cities.html"},"modified":"2015-06-09T09:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:29:40","slug":"forget-desert-solar-farms-we-can-get-more-than-enough-solar-energy-from-cities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/forget-desert-solar-farms-we-can-get-more-than-enough-solar-energy-from-cities-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Forget Desert Solar Farms: We Can Get More Than Enough Solar Energy From Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nThere&#8217;s plenty of sunshine for solar panels right here where we need it.\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/m.fastcompany.com\/3044037\/forget-desert-solar-farms-we-can-get-more-than-enough-solar-energy-from-cities\">\r\nForget Desert Solar Farms: We Can Get More Than Enough Solar Energy From Cities<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nAdele Peters, Fast Company, 8 May 2015,\r\nUsing California&#8217;s rooftops, parking lots, and other developed land,\r\nthe state could power itself up to five times over&#8230;.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n&#8220;I questioned whether we have a constraint on land,&#8221; says researcher\r\nRebecca Hernandez. &#8220;It was striking to me that there seemed to be\r\nsort of this mismatch of available places to put solar. I wanted to\r\nreally understand how much land do we have, how much land is\r\navailable, all these land dynamics that really were not quantified\r\nbefore, and sort of paint a better picture.&#8221;&#8230;\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/v5\/n4\/fig_tab\/nclimate2556_F2.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/v5\/n4\/images\/nclimate2556-f2.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n<p>\r\nBy building in and near cities, we could also add new solar power\r\nmore quickly,<!--more-->\r\n\r\n because remote plants require new transmission lines.\r\n&#8220;We have to build out infrastructure to catch up to these places,&#8221;\r\nHernandez says. &#8220;Really, our solar energy installations are now\r\ndictating the infrastructure of our grid, which is sort of\r\nbackwards.&#8221;\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nSo we can instead put solar panels on rooftops and spare acreage\r\n(parking lots, airports, industrial parks, etc.) right where the\r\npower is needed.\r\n<p>\r\nThe study:\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/v5\/n4\/full\/nclimate2556.html\">\r\nEfficient use of land to meet sustainable energy needs<\/a>,\r\nby Rebecca R. Hernandez, Madison K. Hoffacker, and Christopher B. Field,\r\n    Nature Climate Change\r\n    5,\r\n    353\u2013358\r\n    (2015)\r\n    doi:10.1038\/nclimate2556.\r\nReceived\r\n    03 September 2014\r\nAccepted\r\n    30 January 2015\r\nPublished online\r\n    16 March 2015\r\n<p>\r\n-jsq","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s plenty of sunshine for solar panels right here where we need it. 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