It’s in Turlock? I gotta go see this warlock IRL.
California's first solar-covered canal is now fully online [Turlock]
Submitted 2 days ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to energy@slrpnk.net
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/california-first-canal-array-project-nexus
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 days ago
India have been doing this for a while, keeps the panels cooler(thus a bit more efficient), reduces evaporation, and does not require more land, but hardware and maintenance is more complicated and expensive
keepthepace@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
It is actually a good trick to assume that when a renewable “innovation” happens in the US, it has already been deployed somewhere else already. I love this 2012 picture of the Indian project:
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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Also this US installation is fucking tiny. Ive seen bigger private installations on some random farm.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 days ago
safe to assume any “innovation” coming from the US is in fact decades behind the rest of the globe.