David Bragdon Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:30:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Airborne Laser Scan Shows New York Rooftops Could Generate 5,847 MW of Solar Power https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-york-solar-power-lidar-20110617/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-york-solar-power-lidar-20110617/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:30:45 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=19151 Special planes equipped with a special laser system called Lidar flew over New York last year and scanned all the potential rooftops out of more than one million on which solar panels could be installed to properly produce power, NYTimes reports.

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