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  • Parking fines follow the costs-by-cause principle. Thus, qualifying them makes their size dependent on their damage.

    Parking in a fire department safety zone resulting in a delayed fire response can be costly, but even if no fire response was delayed, there's an opportunity cost for the fire department, because they need to buy way-clearing devices or extended fire response tools, if there is high likelihood of blocked zones or passage.

    There is a whole department of economic science dealing with this, the internalisation of external costs into economic activity (carbon tax is an example).

  • https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/01/d7451269f0bb-research-begins-to-generate-electricity-from-snow-in-japan.html

    The city of Aomori, which sees heavy snow every year, started a trial in a swimming pool at an abandoned elementary school in December [2022] to explore the feasibility of producing energy by utilizing the temperature difference between stored snow and the surrounding air.

    According to Forte, challenges include finding a large-scale facility to store snow as well as securing heated air during cold seasons.

  • OK, now the argument makes more sense.

    Some bodies came up with requiring newly built housing to have planned in a renewable energy source. The idea is that those who build are investing into the future already and gathered large amounts of capital anyway. The disadvantage is the creation of a mid-term disincentive for housing construction, so keeping the housing supply in control might be more crucial. This method is also slow.