Viking_HippieAn unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria.
I wonder if their government is subsidizing them in some way. But also looking at it most of them are on apartment buildings so it may just be that every tennant in the building chips in to a common fund to get them installed so they get lower electricity costs. Pretty smart investment since those panels last for decades and the cost will be covered way before they reach end of life.
MintyFreshI’m sure electric service has been patchy at best given the war ravaged state of things there.
DeckPackerThey aren’t being governed by ISIS.
Correct, it’s the other big islamist group, al-Qaeda.
Also wrong.
Either you are misinformed, an idiot or just racist.
If you wanna learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_transitional_government
Ah yeah, Wikipedia – an ultimate source of symbolic truth, which points exactly at al-qaueda if you are not deliberately ignore it, morron
What a nasty stain on the Internet you’re making.
starlingukIgnore the 14 year old troll.
NOT_RICKAl Qaeda and Isis aren’t the same thing, even acknowledging al-Sharaa was a part of al-Qaeda for several years and Al Nusra is just a spin off of AQ. Al Nusra and Isis have been fighting one another for over a decade.
slippyferretAmerican cities should have looked like this 20+ years ago.
Real people wouldn’t even notice from the streets, but rich fucks would see them from their jets and oppose it.
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TheMadCodgerMore than that. Carter put solar panels on the White House. Regan took them down. 40+ years of making America worse so the dragons could grow their hordes.
We just need to have a devastating civil war that destroys most of our existing energy infrastructure and we can get their too 😊
There’s looking at the bright side!
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potoooooooo ✅️Have I got some good news, then!
MrKoyunLol this is not a case of Syria being just very environmentally concious and deciding to get far ahead in the solar game. Its a case of not having reliable electricity infrastructure so solar is the only and neccesary option.
Is this ideal? No. Is it good that a lot of people are successfully relying on solar energy? Yes, and developed countries need to catch up.
Jake FarmI’ll do you one better - why is Aleppo?
Dr. BobWhen is Aleppo?
Az_1The Milky Way
cally [he/they]huh, those roofs look kinda weird and all the same- (takes a closer look) oh it’s all solar panels that’s actually really cool
Does no one remember this place being decimated by the US and Russia?? It’s not unusual, its because there is probably a lack of reliable electricity infrastructure
InternetCitizen2Yup, they have had a total systems collapse. They are there because they have not choice not due to any forward thinking or some other policy.
I live there. I can confirm, I believe right now it’s because our gov cannot pay for it. The price of power has increased by 800% since Jan 2026. Much more than the avg citizen can afford
China, just like the rest of the world. Solar panels are cheap AF
AppoxoChina
So these are systems that work when the main power is down? Do people have battery packs too?
MashedTech
What 14 Years of Isolation Did to Syria's Technology
Yes. Shit load of battery packs and DC2AC inverters
Almost every house has at least some sort of battery
Why not because of that amd because it’s a great thing to have?
Why does almost everything here seem to have a need to be absolute?
After I read your comment and the title I might see an angle:
Unusual adoption
It’s a stretch to interprete that considering the war and the need for electricity resulting in the easiest way to get access to independant electricity is solar (because water can’t do it and neither can wind).
But depending on the cultural lense it’s
A: Duh. Obviously we need solar because the US bombed our grid to dust
or
B: Huh. That sure is a high number of solar panels. My city doesnt have that many panels.
By the US? Do you mean IS, Assad, and Hezbollah?
The US is normally the country that bombs the middle east but in Aleppo it was almost exclusively Russia and the Assad regime that did the bombings. Saudi Arabia (and to a lesser extent Turkey) were the ones who sponsored ISIS. The US for once actually sponsored the relatively good guys in the conflict by backing the AANES (“Rojava”).
This is not to say that the US had any moral reasons to choose the AANES. It was strictly geopolitics but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Broken clock that never goes right?
But where is the powerplant so the USA military can bomb it to attack civilian infrastructure?
You don’t understand. Now they can bomb both in a single hit
So much saving for US taxpayers
There should be a politician in every building too. For triple savings! Bomb the powerplant, civilians and politicians! All in one go!