Interesting claim. Overall, a good article with many reference links embedded.
They better have backup sources of energy, that’s a pretty big target.
They will also help to reduce the evaporation of the water. However, a lot (most?) of the impoundments also hold fish and are used for recreation. I’m guessing the environmentalists will limit their use to certain areas.
If anything big is blown on that during a storm it will destroy it.
> The army says its goal is to boost clean energy... <
Silly me. A thought the army’s goal was to defend the country, period.
Guys, I know you are landlubbers, but hurricanes have this nasty habit of smashing up and sining things that are afloat. The Navy gets so tired of their stuff getting busted up that if a hurricane is headed for a port the Navy moves its ships out of the way if they can. I know of one submarine that could not get under way and so they submerged it at the pier and put it on the bottom. It sustained only minor damage. But that's a nuclear submarine, not a bunch of floating solar panels.
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.
he left out this part; During the day, if the sun is out. I call B.S on the entire statement.
The army says its goal is to boost clean energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and give the nearby training facility a source of backup energy during power outages. …. . . and give our enemies a lot to laugh at us about.
Great, now the solar panels can kill the fish just like the windmills kill the birds.
What is the insignia for the Solar Force?
Remember the double lightening bolt and the rising sun have already been used elsewhere.
Yep! No environmental impacts with that crap...
The army just gets more and more insane...
Even the French army was never this worthless...
Let Ukraine have it to see how it works first under battlefield conditions
“Floating solar had a moment in the spotlight over the weekend when the US Army unveiled a new solar plant sitting atop the Big Muddy Lake at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. “
Take that Putin, you PIECE OF CRAP. You don’t stand a chance with that ‘polluting’ fuel!!! And that’s because we care, you Planet-Destroying BEAST!!!
No way Putin wins, especially with Greta directing our Green Troops!!!
“The army says its goal is to boost clean energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions...”
How about a goal of winning a freaking war ...you losers. We’re Biden’d.
For people wondering why Putin is blasting the crap out of Ukraine with an infinite inventory of our munitions, while our inventories were pretty much cleaned out over a month ago...yet we spend 10 TIMES MORE on our military!
...you now have one of the many, many, reasons.
“...floating solar plant at Fort Bragg...”
Soon to be renamed Fort Buttigieg.
Horrible and stupid. You screw up the whole lake. Those panels are filled with heavy metals that will pollute the water. The lake will instantly be a no wake no boat lake. Al for the retarded idea of Gaia and the global warming hoax.
What toxic metals are in solar panels?....
Toxic metals like lead and cadmium may also be present in solar panels. Solar panels may contain critical materialsExit Exit EPA website, including aluminum, tin, tellurium, and antimony, lead, cadmium, silver, as well as gallium and indium in some thin-film modules.
That’s gonna be great for the water supply and groundwater.
The next Love Canal.
Are Broken solar panels toxic?
Solar panels are composed of photovoltaic (PV) cells that convert sunlight to electricity. When these panels enter landfills, valuable resources go to waste. And because solar panels contain toxic materials like lead that can leach out as they break down, landfilling also creates new environmental hazards
https://www.wired.com/story/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die-leaving-behind-toxic-trash/
Let’s call it what it is...”interesting quackery.”
How long before they discover shading a million square miles of water is a bad idea? Before long, they will find all sorts of foreseeable problems: algae growth in the water, ducks and other waterfowl looking for nesting places, water temperatures drop changing the aquaculture, geese pooping all over the solar arrays and no way to clean them, minerals and salt spray corroding the metals and on and on.
This is a stupid idea and a non-starter.
Yeah thats not a target...