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Environment & Energy

bucolic_frolic

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1. I never do understand why parking lots have to be so parking lots

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 07:19 AM

Sep 30

Pave everything.

There is crushed stone as an alternate.

Hundred years ago they probably used timber flats in some areas, farm style.

Warehouses are a fraction of the area of the land they occupy, usually.

There's room to tweak environmental improvement in these applications.

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60% Of Virginia Is Within The Chesapeake Bay Watershed - That Watershed Lost 50,000 Acres Of Forest Canopy In 7 Years [View all] hatrack Sep 30 OP

I never do understand why parking lots have to be so parking lots bucolic_frolic Sep 30 #1

or paving bricks, mopinko Sep 30 #2

put those solar panels over the parking lots. mopinko Sep 30 #3