When Joe Seaman-Graves, the city planner for the working class town of Cohoes, New York, Googled the term “floating solar,” he didn’t even know it was a thing. What he did know is that his tiny town needed an affordable way to get electricity and had no extra land. But…
A recent study that appeared in Nature Sustainability found that more than 6,000 cities in 124 countries could produce all their electricity demand using floating solar. It also found that the panels could save the cities enough water each year to fill 40 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Floating solar panel farms are beginning to boom in the United States, attractive not just for their clean power and lack of a land footprint but because they also conserve water by preventing evaporation.
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