76 pointsby littlexsparkee7 hours ago6 comments
  • Stronico7 hours ago
    Non paywalled link https://archive.is/g7HNV
    • dylan6046 hours ago
      The TFA link works fine for me, while your achive link is unviewable as it wants me to prove i'm human by scanning a QR code with my mobile device. Not sure who you're trying to help
      • fhdkweig6 hours ago
        The original link did not work for me. It displayed the article for a couple of seconds and then popup said "register for free to continue reading this article." When I clicked on the popup's 'x', it redirected me to the front page.
      • gregoriol6 hours ago
        It works for me, without a qr code
      • TulliusCicero6 hours ago
        It helped me.
      • wat100006 hours ago
        Consider that other people have different experiences of things. The TFA link doesn't work for me (it appears to, but then it forces me to register to keep reading) and the archive link just required a standard captcha.
  • vishnugupta5 hours ago
    Just checked out the Google map satellite view and no kidding! The solar panels are crazy! Highly recommend exploring it yourselves. Mind blowing.
    • moffkalast5 hours ago
      Yeah there's something on almost every roof in Damascus, and Google's imagery is usually fashionably 2-5 years out of date so it's probably even more now.
  • adrianN5 hours ago
    I wonder how they use balcony solar for blackouts. The systems I know shut themselves off if the grid goes down.
  • tibbydudeza2 hours ago
    We had to do the same here in South Africa - 2 hourly blackouts and innovative financing packages and cheap panels and inverters from China - you pay a monthly rent to own fee and they cover the maintenance.

    Nearly every third house has panels, but we don't feed back to the grid - the idiotic local authority lost the plot here and wanted to charge an enormous fee for a feedback meter.

  • heyitsmedotjayb7 hours ago
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  • WhereIsTheTruth6 hours ago
    See, Iran?

    All you had to do was westernize your economy, hand your infrastructure to global capital, and open your markets

    Do that, and just like Syria, you'll become "partners"

    • amunozo6 hours ago
      Aren't all these panels coming from China anyway? Iran could do this and keep its iron grip, no?
    • epsters3 hours ago
      They may also want to replace the Supreme leader with a CIA, Al-Qaeeda, ISIS and Nusra-Front veteran to get taken off the State-Sponsor-of-Terror list.
      • Cyph0n2 hours ago
        Or intentionally repatriate colonial administrators who oversaw torture of misbehaving natives and place them in cushy government positions back in the metropole.

        Or repeatedly elect ex-Irgun and Lehi terrorist leaders into the highest positions of government.

        Or just Winston Churchill the hell out of it and be proud of your past crimes.

        etc etc

    • pjc505 hours ago
      I don't think that's a reasonable description of Syria, which is more of a failed state.

      But yes, generally westernizing works out better for all concerned.

    • throw73848445 hours ago
      Western solar panels come with subscription and remote kill switch.

      Iran is trying to build grid on atomic powerplants, because solar is frankly not enough nor reliable!