The World's Largest Floating Solar Farm

Roughly 150km south of Shanghai a gigantic civil engineering experiment is underway that’s causing international ripples in more ways than one.
Potentially capable of providing 50% of the world’s ongoing energy needs, the clean and green technology being trialed in China’s Hangzhou Fengling Electricity Science Technology solar park will also provide employment and nutritious food for locals.
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The World's Largest Floating Solar Farm

[@ProgressiveVegan]

Two benefits of floating solar farms: 1. solar is more efficient if they are kept cool, which is the case over water, and 2. cleaning them with water is very easy when they on water.

[@illuminate4622]

They should really build one above the Salton Sea in California. That would slow down evaporation and the exposure of the poisoned lakebed. And it could power half of California.

[@ProgressiveVegan]

@@illuminate4622 Good idea. The lake is shrinking though as I understand it. I wonder if a floating solar cell canopy could save it

[@TL-fe9si]

I assume there will be some chemical corrosion for the soloar planal to deal with, especially if they are floating on sea water 24-7.

[@ProgressiveVegan]

@@TL-fe9si Most floating solar farms are on fresh water, which have no tides or big waves, so the casing structure is less expensive to build. In sea water cases, then yes, there would be more maintenance required. Even then though, the floating ocean solar farm is a lot cheaper to maintain than the other two significant sea water renewable energy systems, which are wind power, and tide water turbines. Both of those are partially or fully under water, which require boat transport, and sometimes divers to maintain.

[@sagarkb3149]

I think floating solar farms is best🙌

[@mb-3faze]

Hangzhao Fengling (stage 1) is 320 MegaWatts, not 300 GigaWatts. That's a big difference. Also, units of *power* are Watts and units of *energy* are WattHours (or Joules for SI units).

[@leetakamiya]

Watts three orders of magnitude between friends? Pun intended.

[@eugeneng2721]

I was about to post about this colossal mistake too. Apparently the largest nuclear power plant has a capacity of over 8GW and the three gorges dam has a capacity of 22.5GW.

[@vamsisayani]

he mentioned 300GWH and 120MW. Different units and confusing at first glance

[@senftube2460]

4:30 Shows 10,6000 TWh, says 10,600TW. Wrong number and wrong unit. Nothing to learn here

[@yourstrulytk12worldaffairs]

@@leetakamiya 🤣🤣🤣 nice one

[@leogronung3146]

Why don’t we just put solar panels on factories and storage halls? Why can’t we think small to do big? The amount of unused space above those buildings is huge. It would produce everything we need without destroying landscape and ecosystem any further.

[@commander-yx617]

The desert would also be a good place (obviously there is almost always sun there).

[@Quantum_Beyblades]

@@commander-yx617 The transporting issues. Also solar panels would catch so much dust that they wouldn't produce any electricity

[@Quantum_Beyblades]

I always tought of that. If the building is in a sunny place, it'd be great. Also nearly no electricity-transporting issues. Still, it would create some issues while taking permissions for all houses and shops.I think gactories and storage halls wouldn't cause problems

[@plutus7343]

@@commander-yx617 yes. The transportation is a huge problem. There‘re plans to produce hydrogen with that much energy in the desert, that we then pump through pipelines into europe from Saudi/Africa with almost no transportation losses. Plus Dust isn't a problem either with sun->Hydrogen plants instead of sun->solar->Electrolysis

[@insectbite1714]

@@plutus7343 found the propaganda spreader

[@venkate5hgunda]

The entire setup also need to be elastic enough to accommodate fluctuations in the water levels, maintenance etc. It's a commendable achievement, if they're able to get it done with all these aspects in mind.

[@jayantsingh3078]

India also stabilised floating solar panels in MP.

[@parnamsaini4751]

@@jayantsingh3078 They copied India...you mean?

[@PS-ug7nm]

@@jayantsingh3078 In Telangana and Rajasthan as well

[@seapirate7770]

@@parnamsaini4751 no, noone copied anyone, floating solar farms need local configuration so each instance is different.

[@brianpaton6687]

What do you mean if they are able to get it done. They are doing it, in China. Whatch the video again you will see.

[@bernddamian9519]

Sometimes I wonder what the world would have looked like without innovations like this😊, my advice for everyone, both in the agricultural industry and elsewhere, is to evolve with the world in others so as not to to be left behind

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[@sunshinesun121]

Totally AGREED. Mankind Progress / Evolution is NECESSARY as a SPECIES. Else Stagnate and Die off.

[@rabbit251]

Tech Vision should do a story on passive solar or designing buildings with plants to reduce heat. My father back in 1980 in Wisconsin built his home with a passive solar room, basically an attached greenhouse. In the summer he keeps thick blinds down to block the sun and heat. But in winter he keeps it open during the day. He runs his furnace only once in the morning. The solar room with fans in the walls circulates the air through the house. At night he uses a heat efficient pellet stove to heat the house. His heating bill in winter is about $40/mo.. I live in Tokyo and I see some buildings here planting gardens on top of their buildings.

[@hasanhakan4019]

Solar thermic is different then photovoltaic. Photovoltaic is for generating electricity.

[@homo-sapiens-dubium]

Also, "protecting fish from birds" is a big inference to the natural ecosystem, but that might not matter anyways on large artificial water bodies...

[@stefan_popp]

In the next sentence they alluded to the lake being used for fishing. Imo it makes sense to lump all exploitation efficiently into one place.

[@homo-sapiens-dubium]

@@stefan_popp Sure, the thing is ecosystems are much more fragile than one might imagine and inferences can cause larger changes and loss of biodiversity. E.g. The bird-poop might play an important role to some organisms serving as prey for the fish again. But that might not be relevant in completely artifical systems like these. Just wanted to hint at previous attempts to "fix" a systems that went terribly wrong (e.g. rabbits in australia)

[@stefan_popp]

@@homo-sapiens-dubium I completely agree. And I would even say that this is not entirely artificial (like indoor fish farms), so the fishers rely on a somewhat functioning ecosystem for fish productivity as well. Unfortunately, there exist too many examples of cane toads, kudzu, and cats.

[@jakehix8132]

@@homo-sapiens-dubium How do you feel about the GMO mosquitos being released in Florida?

[@homo-sapiens-dubium]

@@jakehix8132 should be careful everywhere in an ecosystem, except for mosquitos, these suckers deserve extinction, lol

[@brianbrewster6532]

I've said this many times before: put the solar panels on top of buildings and homes. Capture those electrons near where they will be consumed. That real estate is vast and already exists. Plus, by having less black roof shingles or flat roofs, you reduce how much light gets reflected back into our atmosphere which helps reduce the greenhouse effect.

[@PeterLawton]

Does your home have solar panels on top?

[@PeterLawton]

My personal preference is to have my panels on-site, for the sake of my own independence. But I do like the idea of using surface water as they do in the video, for those people who prefer buying from a utility, people in city high-rises, for example.

[@jdjdjuwkrk8838]

But people in cities lives in blocks. Do you think a 200m^2 roof will cover energy consumption of 20 families?

[@peppyweppy6851]

So I am actually dutch, and I love this video. But theres one small grammatical error :). In 4:54 it's said that zon-op-zee translates to sun in sea. Actually, op means on. So it's sun on sea (op = on top of/ on top)

[@jamesowens7176]

Most of the man-made lakes in the US serve as recreational areas for the local populations, with their shores lined with expensive homes. I expect there would be significant resistance to covering the surface of these lakes with solar panels.

[@equalinfinite]

I'm pretty sure there are more protected water reserves "Lakes not open to the public" then there are man made and natural lakes people are allowed to go to.

[@eddy11tsang24]

@@equalinfinite can’t do this in US as US will not follow China. US will invent something better.

[@AegisMPowe]

If their lakes start evaporating you would think they'd suck it up. Sure, America won't follow China it'll just buy their labor off them like they do everything else.

[@rogerhegemier8491]

Create More Man Made Resevoirs, and No Building of Homes, and no boating !!!

[@jamesowens7176]

@@rogerhegemier8491 From what land? You have to usurp the current owners to do this, and that's never an easy sell in congress unless you can make the case of improved benefit (as least for some people) like nice home sites, fishing, swimming, and boating. That's how all the damns of the Tennessee Valley Authority were built.

[@pa-pn1uu]

Why don’t governments (especially in more developed nations) just enforce people to plant at least 1 or 2 trees a year so then deforestation occurs at a slower rate and helps capture carbon. I see it as a very cheap, easy, practical and accessible way to help offset emissions.

[@venkate5hgunda]

And, how would a government enforce such a policy? I stay in a country of a billion people, and it's going to be quite a humongous task to manage, if at all that happens.

[@SchwertmeisterSquall]

Germany..... 😭

[@pa-pn1uu]

@@venkate5hgunda They can pass this as a law. Like in England the COVID-19 restrictions were legally passed as laws and anymore found to be breaking those were punished through the system. They could do the same for the policy for planting 1 tree a year. It’s a very easy job to do and doesn’t take more than an hour to do per person. And a billion more trees would greatly help your country since it’s probably one of the biggest emitters in the world.

[@pa-pn1uu]

@@SchwertmeisterSquall ?

[@pa-pn1uu]

@@julianhaddad1431 yeah that too but that can be done by governments and corporations themselves. I’m talking about getting the public more involved which will make them more aware and more self conscious about their choices. I don’t see any reason against planting a minimum of 1 tree a year per person and maybe they could just increase to 2 trees a year.

[@pauladams1829]

It's fantastic technology providing food and clean power. Floating deep sea wind also has massive potential.

[@mhamma6560]

There's no point in deploying these into water which substantially increases costs. These could be used to cover roofs thus lowering structures cooling requirements while prolonging the life of the roof. It literally be putting the power to precisely where it's used eliminating the need tor power cables and other such infrastructure to support it. Also, water and electricity aren't friends.

[@pauladams1829]

@@mhamma6560 Placing solar panels on water helps keep the water cool and the water keeps the panels cool and clean which helps the panels work better. Rooftop solar is also great there's room for both.

[@aereiq]

@@pauladams1829 and what are these solar panels made of? Cause if they contain metals like zinc, aluminium or minerals made from coal, then lake will get poisoned when these tiny particles and poison from battery (lithium based) might leak into water. Sure, water might not get hot, it just turns lethal anyway.

[@jdjdjuwkrk8838]

@@aereiq there is no pollution free energy production scheme out there. Its rested on a plastic film on the membrane

[@pjacobsen1000]

"Hangzhou Fengling Electricity Science Technology Solar Park". That's quite a mouthful!

[@hpsauce1078]

Mmm, when Chinese gets literally translated into English it quickly loses most of its catchiness

[@vanhasydan4754]

With time, R&D and field trial, it could be beneficial

[@ahaanhalwai6739]

Algae is equal to 400 trees in 1 gallon of water 20% algae and 80% water

[@Derty_the_grower]

In miami and other places, Exxon (big oil company) is making biofuel from algae, because it produces it the fastest (way quicker than corn they say). It grows in giant water tanks and the sides grow algae fromt the sun, some even make power, in tests.

[@bknesheim]

That have to be VERY small trees.

[@richardplaatjes501]

In terms of produced oxygen?

[@lawerancelanham]

The reason the planet first gained massive amounts of oxygen was from algae blooms. Specifically cyanobacteria...the red algae. If you've seen it in saltwater aquarium...you'll notice it produces oxygen bubbles.

[@ahaanhalwai6739]

@@lawerancelanham thank you for liking algae

[@Calmnen]

Clean and green energy is the future of technology advancement.

[@saravana21543]

The process of building solar panel is toxic

[@KGopidas]

Clean and green is an abandoned idea. It's original proponents escaped from Paris accord, their hidden agenda being more harmful than useless. Others take time realize and to follow

[@jakehix8132]

Toxicity of manufacturing solar panels has been rapidly declining, from chemicals treating the glass, to the panels themselves, for decades.... likewise, traditional power plants have *always* been toxic, so think about what you're saying. "Clean and green is an abandoned idea" Nope. "Paris accord, their hidden agenda being more harmful than useless" Also, nope. "Others take time realize and to follow " More industries have switched to green energy sources in the past year than any time in history, so also nope.

[@saravana21543]

@@jakehix8132 ok the rare element for solar is mined in our country n the waste which is toxic is dumbed in our country . This rare element is transported to the country which manufactures the solar panel . Lets be clear about renewable energy 1) solar = the rare material is mined n the toxic waste is dumbed back to earth 2) energy from garbage = the process releases large methane which is toxic . For the above two .. the company holders will tell the world they dumb the toxic/ methane energy is handled in a way that wont effect the environment .. its a lie . Bcoz i live just 40km away from the mining of rare element used for solar . 3) biofuel is definitely bad .. bcoz jungle are cleared out for plantation . ( palm oil is known for this n my country is one of the largest producer ) Well i can only think of wind energy being the best but im not sure about the details.

[@aereiq]

@@jakehix8132 in europe, perhaps... But as for china who has majority of solar panel industry today? No, not so ecological as you might think.

[@Sharpman34]

What a wonderful continuation of solar energy! So simple, I'm surprised I never thought more about it. The only, or at least largest downside I could think of quickly was the issue with birds.. Will they try and sit or nest upon the structures? Or cover/damage the infrastructure with their excrement? I'd like to know more

[@anaselsayed6378]

One day we will smell fresh air

[@cheapalopod8563]

In a bunker, lol

[@anders21karlsson]

Sounds like a smart innovation in water reservoirs.

[@erroleabrown4317]

That’s incredible news, I love how it helps merean life and stays cool with the sea, l think it’s a good idea for the future

[@aereiq]

well, unless hurricane hits solar panels, then you can literally dodge flying panels.

[@aereiq]

@bel z. but for how long? Also was there any report if those floatin panels actually needed to be replaced?

[@MusicToTheEars141]

Technology is evolving so fast that this channel will never run out of content. I love to hear about things like this.

[@edgardomuniz4460]

Great use of technology and combining options to get a robust and steady generation of electricity. Is it known or have studies been done on the ecological impact of the massive shade the panels create on the lakes?

[@MattandHolly920]

I'd like to see a thermoelectric generator layer between the water and the solar panel for extra power. Can't wait until that's a popular thing.

[@homo-sapiens-dubium]

the temparature gradient would be too small to make something efficient out of it, lets say you get 60 degrees C, you can get 50% efficiency max. with 30 degrees air temperature. And thats the upper limit (carnought thermal efficiency) . Meanwhile thermosolar plants reach 400 degrees and can still be improved...

[@MattandHolly920]

@@homo-sapiens-dubium That makes sense but the overall efficiency of TEGs nowadays I think is around 5%. If they were way higher it might make sence even with a 30 degree difference. Ive also been thinking, once you start drawing current from the TECs, the temp on the cooler side heats up. That might heat up the lake or reservoir and cause different issues. Anyway, Cheers.

[@DeccanPS]

Great video! India is trying something similar on its Canals.

[@jayantsingh3078]

We have already floating solar panels in state MadhyaPradesh.

[@SKAOG21]

@@AnarchistDoc no lol

[@watb8689]

its officially scrapped

[@sanket.hande9]

@@jayantsingh3078 operational?

[@Rajesh_Singh301]

Chup baklol.

[@mucholangs]

This idea would be great for running industries during the day. If the energy can be stored in batteries, that's even better for 24/7 power.

[@m.tariqulislam6522]

There is an added benefit if it is tied to hydro power - there is no need for vast storage for night time supply. It would be sitting (floating) right on the storage system.

[@dantronics1682]

That is exactly what everyone who are commenting have missed, less water is evaporated, daytime or peak power usage energy generation and the grid is already there.

[@emilioramirez1745]

I literally just pitched this idea to some people related to the water crisis in Utah / sustainability on the environment. Thinking Shade can help with the water crisis and use the coutless of space on rivers and lakes to create better energy rather than burning emissions while saving water Frequency from sound and how the electromagnetic fields can effect marine life are important variables but we need to find that balance Reading the comments just gives me more hope in this world. Beautiful project and hope in can into fruition worldwide alot sooner than later

[@senftube2460]

W is Power, Wh is Energy. To say something produces 352kWh (3:08) says nothing about power output, this amount of energy could be produced by one single cell, given enough time. It’s messed up through the whole video

[@Chainyanker007]

Still another reason people get confused about EVs.

[@robertg7249]

saving the fish meanwhile starving the birds xD

[@GerbenWulff]

And the fish. Ultimately the fish need sunlight because they eat algae that depend on it. The idea that solar panels will increase fish stocks is a Chinese truth.

[@mikeylikesit6588]

Fuck birds. Lol

[@salaheryo]

got it the birds only eating near the solar farms.

[@raguram9343]

@@mikeylikesit6588 I'll say that for you

[@crabbingclammingboatcampin4962]

@@mikeylikesit6588 They're lousy in bed. Better to EAT them.

[@jodycwilliams]

This totally has no chance at all of backfiring and destroying lakes....

[@LuNa-yd1fz]

Let’s see how it holds up during storms.

[@KGopidas]

And floods

[@asahi_ih]

they probably study the geography and such, so I believe it is secured from it.. they are stupid if they put those in a place where lots of typhoon, flooding and other natural disasters..

[@saravana21543]

@@asahi_ih natural disaster is unpredictable . Ask japan .. im sure they did their safety research before building nuclear plants.. but earthquake destroyed it .

[@dcmeserve]

At 2:23 you say (and show) 300GW. I think you must mean 300MW!

[@arrowwhiskers]

This made me double-take too LOL! I just looked it up and they actually meant 200MW. The entire project is 320MW total.

[@KGopidas]

Viewed in isolation, it may sound good. Did we forget the promise of rooftop solar, how far did we get with it?

[@Chainyanker007]

It’s coming along at a good pace, I had mine put in last year. The installers were backlogged over a month. It took them one day to put in 11 panels in three locations on my roof many feet apart, plus new electrical panel and the solar control box.

[@KGopidas]

@@Chainyanker007 progressive and inspiring news. All the very best

[@tyjonesd]

South East Asian here. Demand is rising for residentials, we actually had ours installed two days ago. Although it is cheaper than half decade ago, once the price goes further down, more people will avail it.

[@KGopidas]

@@Chainyanker007 happy to know about progress. Am contemplating similar actin, paused for inspiration. Would those 11 panels cover entire load requirement when generating, nit after sun down. Would not like to confuse generation with storage

[@KGopidas]

@@Chainyanker007 fail to understand why often un nt case, good things happen in installments and with unexpected delays

[@billhamre3974]

If clean and green isn’t the future, then there won’t be a future.

[@marcdefaoite]

Great video. All outdoor car parks should be shaded with solar panels too.

[@dhoffman4955]

They need these on Lake Powell and Lake Mead

[@dave327ful]

Sounds like a winner. Floating solar may be easier to deploy than rooftop panels!

[@fynii2460]

Once Nuclear Fusion will come into Picture and Operation, Every energy sources like Coal, Oil, Gas, Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Tidal, Biofuel, Fission etc will Fade away

[@terrystephens1102]

Floating arrays appears to offer significant new opportunities - definitely worth a try 😃👌👍👍👍

[@moritzmeier3522]

nice video. glad to see that the topic gets into the mainstream. but PLEASE learn the difference between energy (e.g. GWh) and power (MW) resp. energy production and power capacity! They are not the same and it would be just professional to get it right - especially for a channel providing tech content.

[@somethingsomething404]

sorry are you saying the issue is mixing up MW and GW, or that adding the h (to either) means your talking about storage capacity since its power over time vs just instant power with no storage? I'm just confused as to why you wouldn't use MW/MWh to stick to the same unit.

[@moritzmeier3522]

@@somethingsomething404 Hi. The usage of the "h" indicates that a certain amount of power (MW, GW, kW, etc.) is provided for a certain amount of time (h) which results in energy (MWh, GWh, kWh, etc.). So power is that capacity to do some work aka energy. Storage capacity can be expressed as power capacity (e.g. in MW, kW, GW, etc.) or in energy stored by the storage (e.g. kWh, MJ, MWh, etc.). Energy and power are strongly correlated but they are not the same. It is physically just very important to keep these apart.

[@Global4YouChannel]

What about salt corosion if you place solar panels on sea? What about stain development from bird excrement? Doesn't that reduce the efficiency of a solar panel? Are there excisting cleaning processes for that in place? What about photosynthesis? Don't marine-based plants require sunlight in order to grow?

[@damianxavier7343]

These aren't in seas and oceans. That would be too rough and corrosive. These are in mostly man made lakes. In the vid they said that the gap between the panels allows in adequate sunlight for marine plants and animals below it. I assume it is smth similar to lotus leaves on top of a lake. As for the bird poop, that can be easily cleaned through normal maintenance procedures.

[@guidedmeditation2396]

All it takes in one STORM. Back to square one.

[@BlackJacx1]

If you are using the water for cooling, doesn't that mean that you are heating the water(the point being that you're trying to reduce heating of the oceans and atmosphere, by using them as a radiator)? Pretty sure this doesn't solve the issues with Solar, but it's smart to be able to use the existing infrastructure of the hydrodams... now if we could get America to build more hydro dams, and nuclear power stations to go along with these glam projects.

[@petergoestohollywood382]

In your mind, what do you think where the heat goes when there are no panels? Open bodies of water have a very very low albedo of around 0,06. That means 99,94% of the sunlights energy is dissipated as heat in the water. Even if solar panels had the same albedo as the water (which they don’t) they won’t produce as much heat simply because they turn around 20% of that suns energy into electricity.

[@BlackJacx1]

@@petergoestohollywood382 How much sunlight reflects off the water? How much reflects off a panel? In both, which one's surface heats up? Is the heat in water confined to the one or multiple layers of water, and If you heat the top layer of the water, is toxic algae blooms more or less likely? I do like that you seem to have thought about it some, maybe think about it some more. The fact is, on reservoirs this is a good idea, maybe, but hydro dams would be better. In open bodies of water, seas, and oceans I could see it going horribly wrong. Not to mention the pollution and toxic waste that could result if damaged in severe storms, etc.

[@ANJA-mj1to]

Normal operations of the basic control system can be maintained as you generaly devided project. But the researchs and engineers must be aware that enthusiam and ideal can produce big role impact of mother nature. As well, in the other side, implement of this kind can give big influence for benefit on future generations as well minimize entropy in hydrology.

[@xiaodai125]

on other place, they consider how much loss if it fail. on china they consider how much they earn on the period.

[@bjgarris]

Cause a storm will never sink that

[@dano1234v]

What gets me is solar is daylight hour’s, but daylight is peak energy charge, if government wants to use to use the green stuff you think they would change daylight to discount hours, but we know it’s all about money not environment

[@carlociriello8858]

Putting this in salt water wouldn’t work. But covering freshwater reservoirs makes complete sense. They will clean in rain storms. And if they need more cleaning, pay some people! Cover lake Powell! Cover lake Mead!

[@Aaron-wq3jz]

All this renewable energy stuff us dumb. We've had the solution for years. Nuclear has even the answer for years and is only getting better.

[@sprintershepherd4359]

great idea makes total sense . Australia's Snowy Mountain's Hydro could benefit from this

[@evilkidm93b]

Imagine the mess left behind if a really bad storm hit.

[@arielramirez3365]

100% a favor de lo solar... No obstante, en estas aplicaciones, no veo argumento sólido al afirmar que el ecosistema no se verá afectado... 🤔🤔🤔 podrían hacer un video más detallado sobre los estudios de impacto ambiental?

[@1.4142]

The main con is the difficulty of maintenance of water

[@dtm2448]

floating solar panel is good, whole grid can be oriented with the sun

[@ed.t.hansen6499]

all needs to be waterproof

[@petergoestohollywood382]

@@ed.t.hansen6499 residential rooftop solar and any other common solar system is waterproof. You say it like this was an issue.

[@laphoungnghia9762]

Keep on innovate and scale out to the rest of the world to save this planet

[@umermehmood7793]

Land area problem solved no cutting of trees for solar power

[@simonbaker2501]

Supermarkets should be solar powered street lights to be solar powered and traffic lights should be solar powered and Chorley swimming baths should be solar powered as well

[@kevinjhonson5925]

All new houses should have solar installed on the roof as part of the construction. The government should cover the cost as the power can be feed back into the grid. Why cover water when roofs are everywhere.

[@KGopidas]

Each and every metered connection to be assigned at least 1kwh, to be later scaled up to entire connected load

[@darwinjina]

If it does not pay for itself within 10 years then its harder to pay for itself

[@ClemonsKunkel]

Awesome 😎 Love Smart people. Keep it up.

[@unition2226]

when i came up with this idea i did not know its impact but the cooling would need to be closely looked at just because the water evaporates less because of the still air the heat that goes into the water is much more and will evaporate due to latent heat of evaporation. we only knew it works because the panels are more efficient when they run clean/cool. (guess it depends on the climate and what season they are used in)

[@goranmiljus2664]

Until there is a short circuit somewhere. Then the whole body of water is electrified.

[@owenbruce4120]

Solar roofing needs to replace other roofing materials... Space is available by integrated modernization...

[@Jhawk2tall]

Cool idea but the EPA would kill there in two seconds. You would not believe the permit process and studies that have to be done to put a 20 foot dock on the lake. Try to put something the size of a warehouse on there and they spaz out

[@farshadelements6874]

Floating solar is perfect whenever is dam, water storage and lakes in order to prevent water evaporation by sun and PH reduction. I highly recommend it on North pole and south pole on ice caps in order to make shade on ices. This way don’t melt as fast as before. In last 20 years, they are melting horribly which caused, causes and will caused natural disasters.

[@pleasedontpickonme42]

Why don't large corporations for retail make their giant parking lots have solar panels over them? Shade for cars and power for the building....seems like a win win to me. Anyone have any opposition? I've always thought about this, why are more companies not interested in something like this?

[@fredsimon6640]

Good idea 👍🏼

[@markusschmidt162]

the power output of a power plant is measured in kW not kWh.. except if u want to cramp the numbers in a more pleasing shape

[@soumyaranjanbarik3015]

If we cover water with solar panels so water don't evaporated at the amount it was before and the rain in land area get affected... think about it..

[@HVERRE]

Love these videos, so interesting to hear this stuff!

[@rybobz]

Im leaning more toward orbital solar being the future both china and the US have projects in the works

[@clayprice924]

I guarantee this project does not help marine life lol. The project devs just say that to make it green :) putting 1,000s of panels on top of the ocean will still block massive amounts of light, create large amounts of plastic waste because of the buoys used to keep them afloat, and uses more energy intensive materials to help with corrosion. So many ways for this to go wrong lol.

[@markmahan7725]

You also add in kinetic technology to also produce power. Adding a 3rd power production aspect.

[@thesilentone4024]

Lake mead needs this it loses 4.4 trillion gallons a day or week but still thats a lot

[@rogerhegemier8491]

We all need to Pray, that we Get Record Snows, in the Colorado Rockies, and the High Sierra Mountains !!

[@thesilentone4024]

@@rogerhegemier8491 we also need to conserve and limit the amount of loss and use or this will never be solved

[@Dr.Kraig_Ren]

I'm from future. Now India has both, largest floating solar farm and land solar farm. It is Investing more in solar than China, as India gets a lot of sunny days as compared to china.

[@huy99454]

I like the vids about this topic and thanks for uploadig it! But, it would be nice to re-edit this one and correct the units and especially the prefixes. It's not just a "little" confusing. Thx! :)

[@johncooper5124]

Where are the "small is beautiful" people when we really need them?

[@meistervideo2243]

Comparing to solar farm which built on land, this solution won't waste land.

[@farazkhan7035]

Very good journalism. Keep up the good work

[@captiongeeza]

Agree it's defiantly worth having as another string to the bow. There are also massive areas of practically inhabitable desert regions in the world to have them. In western north and south America, north west China, inland Australia, north Africa and others.

[@shashwatsingh731]

It boggles my mind on how you can pronounce these Chinese words so fluently

[@oberstleutnant787]

Chinese words are not hard to pronounce.

[@petergoestohollywood382]

Guess who sponsored this video ;)

[@nonyabizness997]

@@petergoestohollywood382 hi NED bot!

[@petergoestohollywood382]

@@nonyabizness997 what’s a NED bot?

[@thelord392]

他中文发音其实很一般😂

[@Lucoschus]

The Problem with using the space of hydro powerplants is, that they are mostly in Mountain areas which leads to less suntime cause the Mountains surrounding the reservoir block the Sunlight

[@isaakloewen5172]

Also covering the huge number of flat roofs of factories that use electricity

[@iskandarsyah9624]

Solar power is definitely the future, but you need to also provide power at night time and on cloudy day. So you need to upgrade the capability to absorb solar energy even at night ;-)

[@zalxder]

a future exotic diving wreckage for future snorkeling tourists

[@Derty_the_grower]

Awesome. Please do one on fish farms in the ocean, like the giant salmon and grouper farms floating, and growing loads of fish offshore

[@dominiqueridoux2073]

Not for sea water, for lake... Cannot work on sea because of corrosion, waves etc...

[@andr3iu]

That water that is prevented to evaporate will not rain on some near land... Climate will be affected. They have to predict how it will change.

[@Saurabhkumar-gx2wu]

why isn't no one considering the environmental effects due to large scale manufacturing of solar panels and related devices

[@Temurtv.official]

Solar farms take up a lot of space ... then why not just place the solar panels on the roofs?💁 ...no, it's "much easier" to place it entirely on the water?! I don't get it.

[@sarthakkumar4642]

Me too😂😅🤔

[@_VeritasVosLiberabit_]

1. You can't just put a solar panel in any building, you have to make a agreement with the building's owner ($$$). 2. You have to install custom energy lines in the building to receive the energy from the solar panels ($$$). In conclusion, installing solar panels in a building is a small project itself, because almost all buildings are different. So, this is not attractive from an investor's perspective, because they preffer to evaluate a single big project instead of many small projects. That's why is "much easier" to do what they're doing (not to mention that the earnings are lower because of what was said in points 1 and 2).

[@Temurtv.official]

@@_VeritasVosLiberabit_ yes of course, from an investor's point of view it makes more sense to open a large farm. But we're talking about environmental protection, which doesn't have to be (or should't be) financially worthwhile, and this is exactly where, in my opinion, the government should intervene.

[@Temurtv.official]

@The mark of low IQ beast private equity owners could get an subsidy, if they place solar on their roof. That would support the grid and the only problem would then be the storage of electricity (But that's not the topic of this video). As a taxpayer, I would of course pay for it indirectly, because the government has to get this money from somewhere for those subsidies.

[@insectbite1714]

@@_VeritasVosLiberabit_ *LIAR* the less wires needed for solar the better and solar pannels near house= the least wires.

[@NPAMike]

Honestly what they need to do is start mandating any public building, office building and non residential area with a roof has to install solar panels that sends power back to the grid. Not only will these business enjoy lower energy costs but then they would be less of a strain on the grid overall. Its currently now just unused space for most companies.

[@sandeepkambli2596]

the dam reservoir lake, desert, on the top of every home should be given try to

[@stephenmurphy5882]

Love your videos dude, always well done and professional. Always very interesting. I hope your channel blows up for you.

[@crabbingclammingboatcampin4962]

Space aliens are looking down on all of these panels and thinking," Why don't they just build a nuclear power plant??

[@druegeme]

the water cools the panels- that means the water gets warmer. Not sure if the fish like that. But maybe power is more important?

[@trollimusprime8521]

Does it warm the water more than the sun though?

[@erikistrup3477]

How can one say, that solar panels are CLEAN! They do not magically come out of nowhere. A special good idea in hot, dry areas to prevent water from evaporating from sweet water reservoirs.

[@willm5814]

I have an idea 💡😉 what about putting panels on every available roof top in our cities…I think that would just about do it…

[@saravana21543]

Ya its Better idea than this video

[@willm5814]

@@robertlee6338 lol 😂 I have 5K of solar on my roof - cost me $24k - and I have a cabin that has been off grid using solar since 2000 - went vegan 7 years ago - bought a PHEV 4 years ago - only use it about once every 2 weeks - never buy gas - heat my house with heat pumps - built my small house with 2x8 walls to maximize insulation, give money monthly to regenerative agriculture - own a software company, my employees all work from home….I think I’m doing my part 😂

[@willm5814]

@@robertlee6338 I wouldn’t expect the government to put them on my roof, but I would like the government to provide whatever incentives they can to enable the transition

[@netherwolves3412]

An area only the size of New Mexico could supply the entire world with power

[@mrdot1126]

to be fair: Scientists estimate that 50-80% of the oxygen production on Earth comes from the ocean. The majority of this production is from oceanic plankton - drifting plants, algae, and some bacteria that can photosynthesize. so saying reducing alge is good, really depends on what you want to use the body of water you talk about...

[@rederickfroders1978]

Huge solar parks for just 100.000s of people. Its not enough.

[@shinyemperor2745]

not only what Justin Time and M B said but also , there's the deterioration of the ecosystem beneath it, how many panels would we need and how much underwater life do we need to destroy AGAIN for our own benefits ? we've got deserts which have almost no wildlife and no vegetation, we should start with that and HAVE stared with that already , is my point of view...