What moron puts solar panels on the surface of ponds, lakes or other bodies of water anyway? It must be an elite university like Cornell!
As sign of climate change insanity! Plant some trees for God's sake!
"While floating solar – the emerging practice [???] of putting solar panels on bodies of water – is promising in its efficiency and its potential to spare agricultural and conservation lands [???], a new experiment finds environmental trade-offs. ..."
From the abstract:
"Floating photovoltaic (FPV) solar energy offers promise for renewable electricity production that spares land for other societal benefits. FPV deployment may alter greenhouse gas (GHG) production and emissions from water bodies by changing physical, chemical, and biological processes, which can have implications for the carbon cost of energy production with FPV.
Here, we use an ecosystem-scale experiment to assess how GHG dynamics in ponds respond to installation of operationally representative FPV. Following FPV deployments of 70% array coverage, daily whole-pond GHG emissions increased by 26.8% on a carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2-eq) basis, and dissolved oxygen availability rapidly decreased. Despite increased emissions following FPV deployment, FPV-derived GHG emissions from water bodies are likely lower than landscape GHG emissions associated with terrestrial solar and hydropower production on a CO2-eq kWh–1 basis. Adaptive management strategies like bubbler installation may reduce the magnitude of FPV impacts on GHG and dissolved oxygen dynamics."
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