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Solar panels line the parking lot outside of Dell Headquarters in Round Rock, Texas. (Photo credit: Envision Solar)<\/p><\/div>\n

This New York Times article, “The Parking Lot as \u2018Solar Grove\u2019”<\/a>, proposes a fascinating idea for urban development. An architect with Envision Solar<\/a> sought to transform parking lots into more than just open, wasted space for vehicles. The idea was to build solar panels over parking spaces, which makes sense as a means to generate electricity for nearby urban infrastructure, especially with an enhanced smart grid system that could regulate power during peak demand hours. A major criticism of electric-powered cars, the article explains, is that manufacturers will create a huge demand for more energy — which would likely be powered by fossil fuel burning. Solar expansion over parking lots is a step in the right direction, adding the ability for drivers to charge their cars while shopping or at work. Panels can be implemented in other ways too. I think we need to begin thinking how smart developments like this can propose new ways of turning the traditional “concrete jungle” into useful, environmental spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This New York Times article, “The Parking Lot as \u2018Solar Grove\u2019”, proposes a fascinating idea for urban development. An architect with Envision Solar sought to transform parking lots into more than just open, wasted space for vehicles. The idea was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8438],"tags":[8466,8461,8467,8472,8471,1186,8469,8463,8464,8470,8462,8465],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban","tag-concrete-jungle","tag-dell","tag-energy","tag-envision-solar","tag-new-york-times","tag-production","tag-smart-grid","tag-solar","tag-solar-energy","tag-solar-grove","tag-solar-panels","tag-urban-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}