Why not both?

They both are in competition for surface exposed to the sun. The mall’s parking lot near my place used to have trees. When they installed the solar panel shaders last year they cut down all of them.

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ErroneousBosh an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm kind of struggling with the physics of this.

The solar panels go over the parking spaces, like a kind of a bridge, with supports at the sides. There's a lot of space in between.

If the trees were in the same space as the panels, they'd be in the midddle of the parking space. What you'd have then is not a car park, but just a plain ordinary park.

	▲	troupo 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> If the trees were in the same space as the panels, they'd be in the midddle of the parking space. What you'd have then is not a car park, but just a plain ordinary park. Sigh No, it's not. You can, and you should have trees in the middle of parking lots. Examples (and these are not even good examples): - https://maps.app.goo.gl/J4Ug8KyFcg8B481z5 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/Dm2faVYNbeWkivNK6 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/7DEYPKQFX8cNPD8n8