| ▲ | master_crab 7 hours ago |
| One of the solar farms is in a tidal flat. Are those solar panels meant to be waterproof? I’d imagine they may not last as long from sea salt exposure too. |
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| ▲ | ZeroGravitas 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| China has has Megawatt-scale floating PV at sea too. |
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| ▲ | vages 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I would suspect they are floating on pontoons. |
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| ▲ | Y-bar 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | You can see the pillars they are built on in for example https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-13/china-s-s... (direct link to image: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iy93Jvbye2e...) Solar panels are meant to be water proof, after all they are meant to survive rain storms and melting snow and coastal weather. | | |
| ▲ | gs17 an hour ago | parent [-] | | "meant to survive rain storms" doesn't really mean the same as "meant to survive flooding", especially not "meant to survive flooding with salt water". For example, a car survives outdoor weather year-round, but you probably wouldn't want to buy one that was submerged in a flood zone. This plant seems to be floating, though, so they stay above water regardless. | | |
| ▲ | Y-bar 43 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Do you have any specifics about the implementation that makes you say that the engineers have not considered this? |
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