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Researchers find solar panels increase city temperatures and wind speeds (www.notebookcheck.net)
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Rooftop photovoltaic solar panels warm up and cool down cities in Nature Cities

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[–] nulluser@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago

Also, the paper casually mentions how rooftop solar reduces the cooling load of the building. What I didn't see acknowledged was that that extra cooling load (presumably traditional A/C) on a building without rooftop solar moves the heat out of the building into... (drum roll), the surrounding environment. So... the heat still got to the surrounding environment, it just took a longer path to get there.