… all at once

This may sounds crazy but hear me out: planting gardens in the ground, putting solar panels on roofs, not the other way around.

The articles does mention another option:

growing crops under solar panels, a burgeoning field known as rooftop agrivoltaics

That sounds interesting. I hope the cost is going to be studied. Growing vertically and on rooftop can be worse in some ways. More energy intensive if there’s a need for irrigation that requires more pumps to bring extra water to rooftop. More material intensive if the weight of soil require more concrete and steel so the building can support it.

A text post would be much more agreable to read.

ISDS bullshit, again.

the company plans to place its mining waste into the fjord in a controlled manner to limit the dispersal of harmful residue

The company should try placing its mining waste into the CEO’s pool in a controlled manner to limit the dispersal of harmful residue.

What would prevent water depletion and corruption from dooming New Tehran the same way it doomed Tehran?

It seems like it a bad place. It would probably shorten the panels’ lifetime, and maintenance would be tricky without interrupting train traffic.

Let’s work on putting more solar panels on schools, malls, parking lots, train stations, and any structure with a large roof.

Li-Ion seems to be the go-to solution. I hope new static energy storage projects will prefer other options (Na-Ion, flow batteries, …) since there’s a limited supply of Lithium and we need it for vehicles.

That’s true. If there’s lots of flexibility in the energy consumption, then it would be easy to keep adding lots of renewable. And there’s lot of potential for demand flexibility.

In reality there’s limited flexibility, in part due to laziness and inertia. So adding more solar is giving diminishing returns. Which means adding solar gets harder to do economically as the share of renewable increase.

There need to be better incentives for flexibility in demand (ie push consumer to shift energy usage) and for storage (ie give energy producers bonuses depending on the amount of energy storage they have available).