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'Limitless' energy: how floating solar panels near the equator could power future population hotspots (theconversation.com)
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'Limitless' energy: how floating solar panels near the equator could power future population hotspots::New research shows densely populated countries in Southeast Asia and West Africa could harvest effectively unlimited energy from solar panels floating on calm tropical seas near the equator.

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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

This happens to solve another problem though, which is that decreasing cloud coverage in the Pacific is leading to increasing surface water temperatures