Solar farms floating on reservoirs in China reduce evaporation and generate power at the same time.



    by Por_TheAdventurer

    41 Comments

    1. This is the difference between the US and China. China’s goal is around national interests, where the US’s goal is entirely greed. Solar makes complete sense, especially with the new demands for power, but they’re not lining our politicians pockets, so they’re blackballed. It’s why China may outpace the US in ai because they’re not basing the decisions on who is giving them the most money. There is some hurdles for China, but their decisions aren’t based on money .

      Edit:Changed from capitalism to greed, which is more accurate atm

    2. Given the current state of affairs in the Middle East, I wouldn’t be surprised if China ramps up their solar and renewable energy capabilities vastly over the next few years.

    3. Looking at the current events in the middle east. Reneables are the future. And these are the kind of solutions we need.

    4. IcyBirthday2501 on

      The only reason this wouldn’t work here in the States is that you would have a bunch of raving lunatics charging into these farms to destroy and steal the panels under the pretense that global climate change doesn’t exist and it must somehow be “damaging the natural ecosystem” as their excuse.

    5. 5 years and we see the environment changes which were not speculated.. and it will be at positive side only.. their solar expansion in desert is an example..

    6. abdallha-smith on

      It’s crazy how it’s clearly communication coming from china’s “government”

      Every post is a publicity stunt.

      Not a redditor sharing something cool, no it’s clearly propaganda.

    7. That’s cool, but have they heard of fracking? How does this even hurt the poor people of an area?

    8. FalconBurcham on

      If the people running America right now were in control back in the day, we wouldn’t have an interstate highway system.

    9. -retaliation- on

      ***ITT*** : top comments by people that don’t know what a reservoir is, despite every follow up comment of all those top comments explaining it to those people. 

    10. I agree with this, and I don’t mean to disparage by asking, but I wonder if this has any effects on wildlife.

    11. Reasonable-Table5301 on

      Scrolled into the comments to see how Redditors would flip this around to China bad and not disappointed by what I found. People come up with some really stupid stuff when China is involved lmfao

    12. porteroffinland on

      The cope in the comments is astounding. It’s sceptic hour.

      “I can’t believe they’re destroying the wildlife in a manmade lake…”

      “They are reducing evaporation from this evaporation inducing megaproject… creating drought!”

      “Won’t the panels break from the salt in this freshwater reservoir, and thus poison the water?”

      Some of you are in a very american time in your lives

    13. Could have had this in the West but they decided the real world wasn’t as important as the internet.

    14. Nice, all this evaporated water was going somwhere, sustaining an ecosystem somewhere. Unless that water vapour was blowing out into the sea, the water shortage has just been displaced not fixed.

    15. Ok_Protection164 on

      China has replaced the United States as the world’s largest superpower. I feel like America is doomed after the 2024 election.

    16. The contrast between those seemingly never-ending rows of floating solar panels and the cobbled together looking boat which looks like it‘s been passed down from grandpappy is a great encapsulation of my image of China

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