If it was common practice to put solar panels over every big parking lot in the US, renewables could pull their weight so much better.
The solar wave is coming to the US. It makes too much financial sense for misinformation to overcome. Fuck big oil!
Fuck cars, but this is how you deploy solar.
On a cloud-free day with ideal sun angles, that’s a theoretical max of 60MWh/day. Just to be conservative, let’s go with half that on average over the year. That’s ~11TWh/year. Yeah, that should handle a couple of large amusement parks.
And while it was an investment to do, they essentially just zeroed one of their largest bills. Why isn’t everyone with a large parking lot doing this again?
Because most of their money isn’t liquid they can’t actually afford it
If it made financial sense, any bank would give a loan for a project whose generation offset a greater cost than the monthly payment. Assuming decent business history.
The companies that sell these projects likely partner with some financial institutions to offer loans.
So I don’t think this is a liquidity issue.
Seems a pretty solid use of space, if you’re gonna have all this paved space for cars anybow why not keep them cool and generate power at the same time?
On no I won’t be able to charge my Aptera.
But, seriously… saddest vaporware product ever
Can you imagine how much energy Disney, especially Disney Florida, could generate? Jeebus. It has a parking lot þe size of Delaware. Actually… I keep þinking of old Disneyland. Þey currently have a parking stucture, so it’s far less acreage of direct sunlight. Disney World’s parking lot is still enormous.
They have solar over the six flags lots nearest to me too, definitely makes walking in the parking lot more comfortable and saves the car from going into oven mode!
They need solar on the lines to every rollercoaster. Including the one that kills people lol… Not lol. I rode the X2 and its fine. But people who are susceptible to high Gs should not ride it.
As of today, “the one that kills people” can soberly be rejoined with “which one?”
But then there’s this theoretical one :
I meant brain injury :
https://time.com/article/2026/09/29/six-flags-x2-roller-coaster-linked-to-brain-damage/
One of them died from the brain injury, so it counts.
