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Researchers find solar panels increase city temperatures and wind speeds (www.notebookcheck.net)

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Rooftop photovoltaic solar panels warm up and cool down cities in Nature Cities

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sure nobody is going to use THIS is bad faith. What could go wrong?

At the same time, these larger temperature swings result in higher wind speeds and potentially greater pollution.

The greater pollution they're talking about is:

Also, greater pollution is possible due to the higher temperature differential between the ground, rooftop, and sky above that mixes smog, dust, and other pollutants into the air.

Pollution that already exists, just possibly spread around a little more.

I also didn't see anything about their assumptions about solar panel-less roofs. Going to be pretty big differences if they're assuming the Un-paneled roofs are all painted white, vs black, for instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

We could get rid of individual car traffic in cities to compensate for both. :)