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[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The benefit of pavement being cheap is it's not terribly expensive to remove or repair bits of it. Cut a square out, drill down with an auger, chuck a sonotube in and pour a footing. Trenching in conduit for power lines doesn't seem like much of a deal breaker either.

I'd also image a parking lot is closer to an electrical connection than a farm field out in the country.

[–] HrabiaVulpes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay, I give on the first part, but not on the second.

Farms consume quite a lot of electricity actually, and often electrical grid must be enforced more for a farm than for a suburbs.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Why are you talking about farms?