Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺<p>This is an interesting new <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> paper looking at the intersection of energy, development, neighborhood race and class in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a>.</p><p>They find that <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solar</span></a> panel installation is by far more common in wealthy and especially white neighborhoods, and that the drop in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NighttimeLight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NighttimeLight</span></a> radiance observed from <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/VIIRS_DNB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VIIRS_DNB</span></a> is lowest in these neighborhoods.</p><p>They suggest that solar adoption may reduce the impact of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LoadShedding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LoadShedding</span></a> (i.e. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/RollingBlackouts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RollingBlackouts</span></a>).</p><p>I see a few issues with their methodology, but it's nevertheless so interesting to see all these aspects combined with day and nighttime <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/RemoteSensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RemoteSensing</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2753-3751/adcb4a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dx.doi.org/10.1088/2753-3751/a</span><span class="invisible">dcb4a</span></a></p>