golf game is adying play , and commonwealth nightclub membership are seen as anelitist relicof the past . But cultural changes are only one rationality golf trend are fall out of favor : The chemical substance - laden , water - guzzle Green are especially irresponsible for areas hit by drouth . Here ’s an approximation from Japan for those sunny green fairways : expend them to generate solar energy or else .
Japan energy titan Kyocera broke ground last calendar week on a23 - megawatt solar farmthat ’s being establish on an abandoned golf course in the Kyoto Prefecture , making it the largest solar energy array in the region . But that ’s not even the only golf game - to - solar project in the country . A92 - megawatt solar farmis planned for land in Kagoshima Prefecture that was designated for a golf course , but was never build .
Repurposing golf game line for energy coevals makes sense in Japan , where an economical crisis reigned in frivolous expense and space for solar panels is at a premium ( Kyocera is also behind the famous floating solar array just off Japan ’s coast ) . But the idea it seems to be catching on in the US as well . grant to Quartz , golf game grade inNew YorkandMinnesotaare also replacing golf courses with solar farms .
These are n’t even the sunniest spots in the nation — think of the potential in places that could really use all that water being dump on golf game courses , like Arizona and California . The overdevelopment of golf game infrastructure has resulted in a glut of courses in these arid climate that also encounter to have rafts of Dominicus . possibly they could useJames Cameron ’s conceptand plant a area of solar sunflower .
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Rendering of the Kanoya Osaki Solar Hills Solar Power Plant in Japan by Kyocera
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