{"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>\nThere&#8217;s plenty of sunshine for solar panels right here where we need it.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/m.fastcompany.com\/3044037\/forget-desert-solar-farms-we-can-get-more-than-enough-solar-energy-from-cities\"><br \/>\nForget Desert Solar Farms: We Can Get More Than Enough Solar Energy From Cities<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nAdele Peters, Fast Company, 8 May 2015,<br \/>\nUsing California&#8217;s rooftops, parking lots, and other developed land,<br \/>\nthe state could power itself up to five times over&#8230;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I questioned whether we have a constraint on land,&#8221; says researcher<br \/>\nRebecca Hernandez. &#8220;It was striking to me that there seemed to be<br \/>\nsort of this mismatch of available places to put solar. I wanted to<br \/>\nreally understand how much land do we have, how much land is<br \/>\navailable, all these land dynamics that really were not quantified<br \/>\nbefore, and sort of paint a better picture.&#8221;&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/v5\/n4\/fig_tab\/nclimate2556_F2.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/v5\/n4\/images\/nclimate2556-f2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nBy building in and near cities, we could also add new solar power<br \/>\nmore quickly,<!--more--><\/p>\n<p> because remote plants require new transmission lines.<br \/>\n&#8220;We have to build out infrastructure to catch up to these places,&#8221;<br \/>\nHernandez says. &#8220;Really, our solar energy installations are now<br \/>\ndictating the infrastructure of our grid, which is sort of<br \/>\nbackwards.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSo we can instead put solar panels on rooftops and spare acreage<br \/>\n(parking lots, airports, industrial parks, etc.) right where the<br \/>\npower is needed.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe study:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/v5\/n4\/full\/nclimate2556.html\"><br \/>\nEfficient use of land to meet sustainable energy needs<\/a>,<br \/>\nby Rebecca R. Hernandez, Madison K. Hoffacker, and Christopher B. Field,<br \/>\n    Nature Climate Change<br \/>\n    5,<br \/>\n    353\u2013358<br \/>\n    (2015)<br \/>\n    doi:10.1038\/nclimate2556.<br \/>\nReceived<br \/>\n    03 September 2014<br \/>\nAccepted<br \/>\n    30 January 2015<br \/>\nPublished online<br \/>\n    16 March 2015<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s plenty of sunshine for solar panels right here where we need it. Forget Desert Solar Farms: We Can Get More Than Enough Solar Energy From Cities, Adele Peters, Fast Company, 8 May 2015, Using California&#8217;s rooftops, parking lots, and other developed land, the state could power itself up to five times over&#8230;. &#8220;I questioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13259,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13252\/revisions\/13259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}