Like a three-fold win here =>
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California pilots a solar-over-canal system to combat drought. Project Nexus will cover canals with solar panels, generating clean energy while preventing water evaporation. The project showing potential for 13 GW of annual energy, while saving 50,000 acres of land. buff.ly/ZBokAil
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“A thing of beauty….Destroy it forever!!!”
https://youtu.be/oLwsZUxgeK0?si=nrIfy8kvcF7Qfe3Z
Wind is a thing that causes evaporation, and when people boost this stuff without addressing that, it feels like a grift.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378377406000734 <- this is just one, but plenty out there:
"In all cases, shading the pan induced a significant decrease of the daily evaporation rate..."
Sorry.
Municipalities in the US should do it too, if parking becomes uneconomical, then so be it
When I worked in Colorado, the Denver Federal Center was rolling out solar projects which covered parking lots, and Belmar in Lakewood had solar on the parking garages
The three I've been to are here in Katy, one West of Lakewood in Colorado, and one near Philly.
Add rooftop solar and it would be a good sized solar farm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan_Mills