When you’re trying to generate a lot more solar power, you’re limited by the size and heft of those big solar panels.
Where can you put them? The answer so far has been the desert, or on rooftops. There have even been efforts to put panels on top of landfill sites.
Solar entrepreneur Troy Helming of the San Francisco-based solar company Pristine Sun has a new idea: floating on water.Here is a direct audio link.
Are Floating Solar Panels Energy’s New Frontier? https://t.co/3AEijvJzGf
— Danielle Park (@kdaniellepark) May 17, 2017
“A big source of water loss over reservoirs is evaporation. When you put solar photovoltaics over a reservoir, you reduce evaporation.”–Mark Jacobson, Stanford University
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