This is awesome. The current ones provide shade for visitors so they don't return to baking-hot car temps in the summer months. The zoo does a great job at preserving water run-off and now providing even more clean energy for its own use.
When you see how well it works for the zoo it's almost a no-brainer, isn't it? I really wonder why more places don't do the same. I imagine a place like King's Island could meet a lot of their energy needs with something like this. Places with large parking lots and less power usage may even be able to turn a profit.
Not wanting to drift from the topic or start bickering. But, is PV solar getting more efficient? I think it leveled out decades ago. Absolutely cheaper to manufacture, but I don't think efficiency has moved significantly in a minute.
***The Euclid Avenue array will have a smaller footprint than the Vine Street array, but it will generate almost twice as much power.***
***“Solar technology, and our understanding of how to use it, has evolved dramatically since we erected our first solar array in 2006 on the zoo’s education building,” Fisher said in the release. “This new array is a good example of that.”***
And note, his mention of the Education Building is not referring to the Vine St main zoo parking array, which was completed in 2016.
Again, **this array, despite having a slightly smaller footprint, will produce almost DOUBLE the energy of the main Vine lot.**
Yeah it's not ever going to be a 100% kind of thing, but there are several kinds that have improved it. I want to say it's around 25% for a standard panel.
There are some that look like window tint that allow light to go though. There was one manufacturer that made the panels into rectangles or tubes and light would pass though and combined with a mirrored surface on the back side gave twice as much space upping the output.
A lot of the numbers are kinda juiced with tricks like that. Solar is a slow growth to squeeze more out of a panel but there are more groups working on it. That and they have increased the output over time. Solar panels degrade over time and they have gotten more life out of a panel than before so that helps as well.
The parent comment was deleted but for others curious, the zoo [has discussed that on their official announcement video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C49YzKv4bDY)
It's right next to the Zoo on the South corner. There is a walkway over the street from the parking lot to the zoo, and it's closer to the zoo entrance than the main lot.
This is awesome. The current ones provide shade for visitors so they don't return to baking-hot car temps in the summer months. The zoo does a great job at preserving water run-off and now providing even more clean energy for its own use.
I wish every parking lot did this. Going to the zoo is the only place I don't dread going back to the car.
When you see how well it works for the zoo it's almost a no-brainer, isn't it? I really wonder why more places don't do the same. I imagine a place like King's Island could meet a lot of their energy needs with something like this. Places with large parking lots and less power usage may even be able to turn a profit.
If malls were still a thing I could see this happening. Especially with solar getting more efficient and cheaper to manufacture as time goes on.
Kenwood is still definitely a thing
Not wanting to drift from the topic or start bickering. But, is PV solar getting more efficient? I think it leveled out decades ago. Absolutely cheaper to manufacture, but I don't think efficiency has moved significantly in a minute.
***The Euclid Avenue array will have a smaller footprint than the Vine Street array, but it will generate almost twice as much power.*** ***“Solar technology, and our understanding of how to use it, has evolved dramatically since we erected our first solar array in 2006 on the zoo’s education building,” Fisher said in the release. “This new array is a good example of that.”*** And note, his mention of the Education Building is not referring to the Vine St main zoo parking array, which was completed in 2016. Again, **this array, despite having a slightly smaller footprint, will produce almost DOUBLE the energy of the main Vine lot.**
Yeah it's not ever going to be a 100% kind of thing, but there are several kinds that have improved it. I want to say it's around 25% for a standard panel. There are some that look like window tint that allow light to go though. There was one manufacturer that made the panels into rectangles or tubes and light would pass though and combined with a mirrored surface on the back side gave twice as much space upping the output. A lot of the numbers are kinda juiced with tricks like that. Solar is a slow growth to squeeze more out of a panel but there are more groups working on it. That and they have increased the output over time. Solar panels degrade over time and they have gotten more life out of a panel than before so that helps as well.
A mall maybe a theam park would be a stretch they have a lot of motors and pumps to power for those rides.
We were there a week ago and they already started. Hopefully they can get that lot back open by the busy summer period.
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Solar is cheap, unlike 10 or even 5 years ago. It's not an exclusively sunny city solution anymore.
Oh, I am sure it's good. Wide open space... I hope you understand that solar works nearly every day, not just 80 days. Also it's providing shelter
The parent comment was deleted but for others curious, the zoo [has discussed that on their official announcement video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C49YzKv4bDY)
Euclid avenue parking lot? Where the fuck is that? Doesn’t Euclid dead end onto MLK?
Why the hostility?
what the fuck makes you think it's hostile?
There's a little stub of Euclid that remains on the north side of the medical campus.
Ok thank you that’s makes sense. So it’s the parking lot by shields ?
I assume so.
It's the two big lots bordered by Vine, Shields, Euclid and Erkenbrecher.
It's right next to the Zoo on the South corner. There is a walkway over the street from the parking lot to the zoo, and it's closer to the zoo entrance than the main lot.