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2025-03-20 Science & Technology

Massive floating solar power plant is making waves

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-20 00:14|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 Not only mechanical wear from the ocean action, but sea water corrosion.

Who's going to clean the panels?
I can't even clean my windows.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-20 00:18|| 2025-03-20 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 They did this once before; it functioned sorta meh, until a typhoon blew it to hell. You'da thought they'd have a plan for, you know, weather.
Kinda like the solar array down by Lake Jackson. Worked well enough until the hail storm and tornado. Then they're out with vaccuum cleaners trying to get all the pieces.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-03-20 09:06|| 2025-03-20 09:06|| Front Page Top

#3 When I was living in Hawai'i, there was talk about using wave action of the surf to generate electricity. Never heard of it actually being tried.

Posted by Mercutio 2025-03-20 10:15|| 2025-03-20 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 This plant is inland and integrated with some reservoirs so it might be augmented with pumped storage (I can't tell).

The environmental impact is pretty significant and not discussed. It basically changes the ecology of the lake and makes it a different type of lake with much less oxidation, much less sunlight. Probably a non starter in the USA or EU.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-03-20 11:53|| 2025-03-20 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 When I was living in Hawai'i

List of wave power projects

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-20 13:45|| 2025-03-20 13:45|| Front Page Top

#6 List of [active] wave power stations

List of tidal power stations

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-20 13:49|| 2025-03-20 13:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems there is more opportunity for wave power generation than wind turbine power generation. It seems too simple.

Must be more money in tax deductions and land grabs for the wind power and turbine industries.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-20 13:57|| 2025-03-20 13:57|| Front Page Top

#8 wave power looks great on paper and small scale tests and installations have gone ok

scaling up has been a major challenge as big projects mess up fishing recreation and navigation

also the ocean has all kinds of irregularities, large isolated waves, cross directional waves and of course salt water is pretty nasty to many materials

finally getting the energy gathered and moved to shore has been difficult and the O&M costs of these systems has been much more than hoped

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-03-20 14:08|| 2025-03-20 14:08|| Front Page Top

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