Labour plans to blanket lakes with floating solar farms
Ed Miliband is preparing to blanket reservoirs and lakes with solar farms as part of Labour’s push towards net zero.
The Energy Secretary will launch a consultation to make it easier to build floating solar power plants, after a report that hailed their potential as a clean energy source.
Floating solar schemes use the same panels as land-based projects but are mounted on platforms floated in freshwater bodies such as reservoirs, lakes, quarry lakes and industrial ponds.
There is a hint of desperation about this, but also revenge against those who know Net Zero can't work and Ed Miliband is mad or bad and probably both.
12 comments:
Every loch in Scotland, every lake in Cumbria ... surely at last people will see that he needs to be sectioned?
Lakes need solar panels like fish need bicycles. Are the Greens up for this?
A consultation eh? I wonder what the outcome will be.
A great big feck off from the plebs which will be hailed as a resounding yes for more cash into the net zero fantasy.
Where is Michael Jackson's doctor when we most need him to treat Milliband?
Anon - yes, it's difficult to accept that he's sane enough to be allowed out unsupervised. His own room with rubber wallpaper can't be far off.
decnine - they probably are, although their interest in the environment seems to be waning slightly under Polanski.
Mike - that's it, whatever the outcome of a consultation it will be hailed as some kind of approval.
High voltage DC electricity in very close proximity to water - what could possibly go wrong? I suppose the only saving grace is that salt water (which is far more conductive) isn't involved...
No plans to 'carpet' golf courses or football stadiums then? I wonder why?
Dave - maybe the fish will pop up to the surface ready cooked.
DJ - it's a mystery, almost as if there are only certain classes of people they prefer to annoy.
According to google AI, ‘In short, cutting off light halts the photosynthesis process, depleting available oxygen and causing the lake's ecosystem to starve, leading to high localised mortality rates, especially in winter’.
Large floating platforms on lakes to intercept sunlight; what, as they say, could possibly go wrong? (Although perhaps dying ecosystems are the responsibility of a different department altogether and therefore conveniently Someone Else’s Problem.)
Macheath - yes, it seems likely that the idea will face considerable opposition for environmental as well as practical reasons. The environmental criticism will probably start with the reduction in photosynthesis and consequent oxygen depletion, but also the possible risk of contamination from panels. Could they be fractured by severe storms? Proponents will say not, but the argument seems likely to be made.
"Could they be fractured by severe storms?"
Just Google
Floating solar farm destroyed
Dave - ha ha, thanks for the link - what a mess.
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