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France Decrees New Rooftops Must Be Covered In Plants Or Solar Panels

Posted by Soulskill on from the or-at-least-fine-pastries dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A law approved in France Thursday now requires all new rooftops in commercial zones to be covered in plants or solar panels. "Green roofs have an isolating effect, helping reduce the amount of energy needed to heat a building in winter and cool it in summer. They also retain rainwater, thus helping reduce problems with runoff, while favoring biodiversity and giving birds a place to nest in the urban jungle, ecologists say." The law was actually watered down from its original version — businesses only have to cover part of their roof. In other solar power news, reader SpzToid notes that despite earlier worries, the European power grid handled the solar eclipse just fine

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  1. Pointing out the stark, bleeding obvious... by Dan1701 · · Score: 4, Funny

    A couple of hours of no power input from solar power is not, and never has been a problem for the European power grid. This sort of thing happens extremely regularly, every night. We're used to it, and can cope. Thanks for worrying about us, though; it really was extremely kind of you.

  2. Re:premiÃre publication by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fuck! Even in the future nothing works! - Dark Helmet

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  3. Re:Part of their roof? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Our 3 square acre factory is totally legit under this law, because we've got a potted geranium on the roof."

  4. News from TOMORROW! by ArcadeMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    2017-08-12 - A man fell to his death today while mowing the lawn on the roof of Les Olympiades. Witnesses claim to have heard him shout "Putain d'écureuils de bordel de merde!" while he fell down.

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  5. A New Market Opens by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to take broken / very old solar panels from all over, and sell them to businesses in France.

    After all, the law didn't state the solar panels had to be hooked up to anything...

    You probably don't want to know about my new plan to get ride of discarded trees and other vegetation.

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    1. Re:A New Market Opens by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 3, Funny

      You probably don't want to know about my new plan to get ride of discarded trees and other vegetation.

      Have them run for President as the best bush candidate?

  6. Re:Part of their roof? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Square acres? So your factory is 4-dimensional?

  7. Freedom Roofs by Snufu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because the bible tells us the French are a bunch of devil worshiping socialists, our only recourse is mandated "Freedom Roofs", each with eternal flames fed by coal, used electronics, hippies, and any stray French we catch at the borders.

    Better dead than green.

  8. Shit! by Greyfox · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just as I was planning to move to France and buy a house with a roof made entirely of stinky cheese! Guess I'm going to have to rethink my plans!

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