An aerial image taken of three houses, shot from perhaps 100 feet above them. They are suburban two-story houses, and the middle one has perhaps a dozen solar panels scattered around the slanted roof. It is a sunny day, and the picture has a very cheery field to it

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   Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 15:36:18 JST Clive Thompson

   Rooftop solar may be growing even faster than we think ...

   ... because in many cases globally it's (relatively) permissionless: Local governments don't need to approve it ...

   ... so their stats are off: They're unaware of tons of cases of people putting panels up

   When analysts used satellite imagery to measure how much solar existed in South Africa, it was nearly 2X what the government thought existed

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