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US Army deploys its first floating solar array (A big moment for ‘floatovoltaics’)
The Verge ^ | June 14, 2022 | Justine Calma

Posted on 06/14/2022 4:07:17 PM PDT by American Number 181269513

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To: American Number 181269513

Yeah thats not a target...


21 posted on 06/14/2022 5:58:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai

If the enemy is close enough to hit our training areas, I think the Army has bigger issues.

Not everything Green is a dumb idea.


22 posted on 06/14/2022 6:29:00 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Define “green” first. Usually (always) turns out that whatever the left labels “green” is actually the opposite. And what business is it of the army to engage in left-wing fiction projects?


23 posted on 06/14/2022 6:52:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: American Number 181269513

Have they deployed their solar powered submarines yet?


24 posted on 06/14/2022 6:59:52 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Olog-hai

Providing power to a base/facility is not a left wing fiction project. This isn’t solar powered tanks.

Jeez…at least read the article.


25 posted on 06/14/2022 7:12:37 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Its viability is most definitely left-wing fiction.

Reading fiction doesn’t make it any more believable.


26 posted on 06/14/2022 7:17:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Vermont Lt

Considering the source again: The Verge is but eleven years old and associated with Ezra Klein’s Vox. No thanks. The army is being ordered to do this by the megalomaniacal tyrants of the DC swamp.


27 posted on 06/14/2022 7:19:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Whatever. Your mind is locked shut. I don’t care about your opinion.

So, I guess we are finished here.


28 posted on 06/14/2022 8:17:55 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: American Number 181269513

How do you clean an array of that size when it is all jammed up together?


29 posted on 06/14/2022 8:20:38 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: American Number 181269513

Chinese solar panels?


30 posted on 06/15/2022 6:55:14 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: VTenigma

Covering just 10 percent of the world’s hydropower reservoirs with floatovoltaics could generate as much electricity as all the world’s operating fossil fuel power plants combined, as researchers pointed out in a recent commentary in the journal Nature.
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So, this captured energy is not going down into the water.

Fish, plankton, coral, squid, sea-monkeys, kelp, etc. will starve.


31 posted on 06/15/2022 8:04:11 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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Good point. The greenies obviously don’t care about wildlife or the environment.


32 posted on 06/15/2022 8:18:54 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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