ScrAPES#22: New Solar Panels Generate Floating Green Power
by Erica Goode
May 20, 2016
In Japan's Chiba Prefecture there are blue solar panels that stretches across the Yamakura Dam. In two years when the construction is done there will be 50, 904 solar panels and they will generate electricity for almost 5,000 homes. This plan is created by Kyocera a company that builds solar panels. The growing interest of solar panels on land and water comes from the growth in the solar market and the decreasing cost of technology. They are also called floatovoltaics. The advantage of floatovoltaics is that they are less expensive due to cost of "land" and they take less time to build. With solar land panels they are much more expensive because you have to buy the land and it goes through a lot of natural disaster events. While floatovoltaics can reduce evaporation which is a positive thing due to droughts.
This article is interesting to me because solar panels are a very positive and healthier way to produce electricity because it uses the sun's energy. It is very efficient. I know there are solar panels in the United States and other countries but I have never seen one and I know it is not really popular because it is somehow "expensive" and so much work. And I especially never heard of "floatovoltaics" or in other words floating solar panels. I think it is a very smart idea for people to do this.
This is important to the environment because it is more efficient and it takes less time to build. It also prevents water evaporation and I know for sure that is a good thing, especially for California, because it prevents drought. And with no drought the aquatic animals will not die. It also provides a plentiful amount of coverage to nearly 5,000 homes or more if the reservoir is larger. The government and countries should accept this idea because it is one step to a renewable resource and one step to making our planet better again.
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