Japan is Getting With The Times and has thus clear cut a bunch of mountain forest for solar panels
Japan is Getting With The Times and has thus clear cut a bunch of mountain forest for solar panels
I'm assuming this is somewhat counterproductive but I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to solar so someone who knows more than me can tell me if I'm being dumb.
Also notice the golf course right next to it, very good for the environment.
Energy is always going to be tricky for Japan, being a densely populated island where most of the land is either mountains or cities. IIRC they're massively dependent on LNG imports? Wonder how that's going what with the Europeans messing up the market since 2022.
Golf is the mange of capitalism, and a cure has yet to be found.
If anyone can get those tidal generators going Japan is probably set (at least until the next tsunami)
You know it has environmental effects too, right? People will just complain about that. Also, there's probably not enough energy.
IIRC they're massively dependent on LNG imports?
Nah they're going green now! Ammonia
Remembering that time 9 years ago when I was convinced that solar freaking roadways will save us.
Ugh don’t remind me
So epic
I thought self driving cars were 1 year away from destroying the trucking industry like 10 years ago
happening everywhere around me. luckily it's just monocultue abandoned tree farms they are cutting so no real ecological loss (the soil is so polluted from former iron mining anyways)
if a collapse comes at least i can go and grab myself a nice fresh panel
40% of Japan's forest cover is monoculture.
Solar panels need to be replaced every couple decades
Mountains are counter revolutionary and reactionary. They deserve whatever they get
"How Yukong moved the mountains" - 1976 film...
I was trying to write a stupid joke about Stalker, the Zone, and golf but the website security cert expired and I forgot it.
I'm almost certain this has happened at even larger scales in China as well. But they also have deserts which are suitable for solar thermal installations.
Every source of energy has an ecological footprint.
Funniest part about this is the name of that city means "Country Viewing Plateau".
Humans: fixing the view, one acre at a time.
