This seems to be one of the latest dernier cri, of the Global Warming hoax and Climate Change religion purveyors! It is presented as pseudoscience!
The fantasized climate crises calls for desperate measures!
They want to cover water body surfaces with solar panels! What is the definition of insanity? 😊 Is it not bad enough that wind power is generated by unreliable, mass bird and insect killing, environmentally toxic, nature spoiling, and large land and sea areas wasting, pre-industrial wind mills (aka wind turbines)!
First, they cover the reservoirs, then the lakes, and later the oceans!
If water evaporation from reservoirs was such a big concern as these scientists point out, it would have been long taken care of!
"An international team of environmental scientists is touting the benefits of solar panels on floating platforms atop reservoirs and other bodies of water. In their paper published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the group describes the many benefits of using existing reservoirs to host floatovoltaic farms. ..."
From the abstract:
"Growing global energy use and the adoption of sustainability goals to limit carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning are increasing the demand for clean energy [???], including solar. Floating photovoltaic (FPV) systems on reservoirs are advantageous over traditional ground-mounted solar systems in terms of land conservation, efficiency improvement and water loss reduction. Here, based on multiple reservoir databases and a realistic climate-driven photovoltaic system simulation, we estimate the practical potential electricity generation for FPV systems with a 30% coverage on 114,555 global reservoirs is 9,434 ± 29 TWh yr−1. Considering the proximity of most reservoirs to population centres and the potential to develop dedicated local power systems, we find that 6,256 communities and/or cities in 124 countries, including 154 metropolises, could be self-sufficient with local FPV plants. Also beneficial to FPV worldwide is that the reduced annual evaporation could conserve 106 ± 1 km3 of water. Our analysis points to the huge potential of FPV systems on reservoirs, but additional studies are needed to assess the potential long-term consequences of large systems."
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