Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "France says all parking lots now have to be covered by solar panels" video.

  1. This could be a big deal if they push through with it, think about it, car parks take up a lot of land, they are perfect for putting solar panels on them, for one, the shade helps to protect you and the car, car parks tend to be in city centres where more energy is needed, with electric cars taking off, these could be used to charge many of those cars or feed energy into the grid. Studies have been done years ago, forgot the figures but car parks around the world take up a lot of land, this idea solves many issues when it comes to solar and as EV cars and battery tech is getting better, I suspect renewable energy is going to generate more energy than we need, especially once we can store a lot of it. I do wonder thought, why hasn't this been done already, we always hear the complaints about where to put solar panels and yet we have a lot of useable land that can be dual purpose. I agree with the video, if France pushes ahead with this, it's very likely a lot of other countries will follow. Also, I agree with him that renewables are already a lot cheaper than fossil fuels, even under normal times when fossils are more reasonable, people get confused about the price of renewables because of the way the system is created, basically, renewable energy from the grid is charged at the same rate as gas, gas being one of the more expensive ones, so even thought renewables are a lot cheaper, consumers are not seeing the benefits of that because of it being priced in with gas, unless you have your own renewable setup on your house, then you'll see the benefits. It's clear why the system was created like that, to protect the fossil industry by making renewables seem expensive to consumers and that's been quite effective for some time now but with everything going on with sky-high energy prices and energy security in Europe, it's likely there's going to be a massive push away from fossil fuels to renewables over the next decade, especially in Europe because now they need to change and by them making it work, the rest of the world will follow, the irony being, Putin invading Ukraine might have done more than the Greens could have dreamed of doing to get us to clean up are act and even more ironic, the longer and higher energy prices stay, as well as fossils being less reliable, the quicker renewables are going to kill that industry.
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