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@scottalanmiller said in Floating solar is more than panels on a platform:

They should put solar power on glaciers! Someone call Argentina, Chile, and Greenland. This is a huge opportunity!

The issue with glaciers is that they can be treacherous, difficult to work on and vastly unstable.

Man made reservoirs on the other hand would be level and easily accessed.

Just putting solar production on every reservoir in the US would offset a lot of coal power.

Sadly you can't just put solar on every reservoir in the US.... There is the entire pleasure craft industry... as well as fishing both for food and sport...

You can still put solar on these reservoirs. You don't have to fill the entire reservoir with solar, although that might be ideal.

True, even just a little coverage helps a little.

@scottalanmiller said:

Better than nothing. Otherwise that sunlight is all wasted.

Better than nothing is a silly statement. If the cost to install is so hi that it never creates a positive return it is a waste of money. There is a reason that cold fusion is not in use. It is not that we cannot do it. It is that it is too expensive to do it.

At that point you are better served to just get normal windows and save that extra money for some other more cost efficient means of capturing solar power.

I dearly do hope that this technology becomes feasible though, the potential is huge.