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Solar panels that throw shade on canals are an environmental win–win – Nature.com
Placing solar arrays over canals would prevent water loss and improve panels’ energy harvest.
Covering canals with solar panels helps the panels to operate more efficiently and the shade helps to keep the canals water from being lost to evaporation.
Most solar-panel arrays are located on the ground or on rooftops. But some researchers have explored options, such as putting floating panels on reservoirs, that aim to reduce water loss.
Brandi McKuin at the University of California, Merced, Elliott Campbell at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and their colleagues analysed the economic…
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