An ingenious idea for multiple problems
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Sometimes it is possible to solve two problems at the same time, and this is one of the cases, in California as in many other places where it rains little, it rains very just and water is needed for crops but global warming is causing it to rain more and more less.
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It would look something similar to the above, we have with this solution we have the surface that is needed to obtain solar energy and we also have another advantage and that is that the loss of water by evaporation is reduced since the channels would no longer be open to the sun. , this is quite important since it is calculated that between 1% and 2% of the transported liquid is lost through evaporation.
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If the 6,437 kilometers of canals in California were covered, some 295,500 million liters could be saved each year, enough to supply more than 2 million people, and how much energy could be achieved with this method, since the technicians of the University of California have calculated that this system would provide 3 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity, more or less half of the new contribution that California needs if it wants to meet the objectives that have been set in terms of decarbonization and green energy, and this In addition, it would avoid having to dedicate 32,400 hectares of land to solar farms, a land that could be quietly dedicated, for example, to growing food.
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The images you are seeing are illustrations of what it would look like, the project is called NEXUS and it is expected that it will begin to be built in what would be the first installation in the fall of 2022, it seems to me a great idea that solves multiple problems especially in those particular areas where canals abound, and where it is required to conserve water and generate energy.
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