350 Days

Needed a picture so I snapped this out of the car window while I sat at a light. It's the top couple of floors of a parking structure at Arizona State University, with the solar panel array on the top deck.
It's hard to believe that, in a city with an average of 350 days of blue sky and bright sunshine every year, solar arrays like this have only started showing up in the last couple of years. It's like so many other things - we need incentives (cash is most popular) to do the right things.
Apparently the incentives are finally right because solar structures like these have been appearing in place of the traditional shade structures, in parking lots all over town, and the houses of the high tech engineering types in our neighborhood have been sprouting solar panels like mold. Full disclosure: we've considered it too, but the incentives aren't enough to make the numbers work for us. I guess we'll keep contributing to climate change, at least for now.