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   Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 04:42:31 JST Kevin Leecaster

   Did you know that putting floating solar on only 10% of the surface of all the reservoirs that humans have built could provide 110% of the electricity that we now are producing? Well, now you do.

   #WeCanDoThis #Solar #PV #EnergyTransition

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 04:45:05 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     #Solar #ClimateSolutions

     Also, it might reduce evaporation considerably, conserving more water in reservoirs and reducing humidity and thus posdibly flashfloods.--hypothesis.

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     Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 04:52:26 JST Kevin Leecaster

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     Evaporation reduction definitely, but the others seem speculative and don't strike me as very possible because of the scale differences between some floating islands and such broad scale things as flashfloods not to mention ambient humidity.

     Putting PV roofs over canals is already saving acre feet of water in a few arid irrigated agricultural regions, but it's just in its infancy so far.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 05:00:59 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     I've read about the roofed canals, too.

     I believe that humanity needs to think much bigger and use #Agrivoltaics wherever possible. (In fact, we could call the swimming panels and the roofed canals #Aquavoltaics.

     As I've researched for my thread, agrivoltaics creates #microclimates, likewise irrigated gardens like the ones built by the #Moors in southern Spain, e.g. #Granada.
     Picture this 4 almost any fields, rivers, and reservoirs, as well as some coastal regions...still micro?

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 05:01:16 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     PS:
     #Agrivoltaics thread:

     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109972629386382918

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     Kevin Leecaster (greenfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 06:27:09 JST Kevin Leecaster

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     @HistoPol
     Agrivoltaics is the real game changer. Not only does it help mitigate global warming by producing electricity without polluting greenhouse gases, it can also help protect crops from extreme weather caused by climate change.

     P.S. I'm hoping that aid agencies and local leaders in #Ukraine are actively looking towards #Agrivoltaics and batteries to make their grid more resilient and to replace the stations that Putin has destroyed.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 06:27:19 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     🤜🤛

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     Mer-fOKxTOwl (glowl@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 06:30:18 JST Mer-fOKxTOwl

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     @HistoPol @GreenFire the oceans are so much bigger than any reservoirs, so i doubt that even having all of them (the reservoirs) covered with solar would change the atmospheres humidity in any noticeable way.

     but it would save a lot of water for agriculture and drinking (with less effort to put into than saltwater)

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 06:47:22 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Mer-fOKxTOwl

     @glowl

     #ClimateSolutions for the #ClimateCrisis
     #Microclimates #Permaculture

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     I am not saying that the impact of doing all that on e.g. the global amount of precipitation or the climate will be measurable.

     However, I believe that mass-implementing #microclimate technology can be a game change, e.g. for #permaculture. 1) [link follows shortly]

     Another example I've read and talked about in my TL is a city in Italy that uses coble-stone...

     @GreenFire

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 06:50:03 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @glowl @GreenFire

     #ClimateSolutions for the #ClimateCrisis
     #Microclimates #Permaculture

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     ...streets and plants a bit of grass in between the stones. The surface cools down considerably. Then, there is the ancient technology of building wind-cooled houses in the #MiddleEast that I talked about last year.
     If "everyone" were able to cool down their houses this way...
     All this passive cooling instead of using A/C would have a huge impact on energy usage.
     I...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 06:50:46 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @glowl @GreenFire

     #ClimateSolutions for the #ClimateCrisis
     #Microclimates #Permaculture

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     ...reckon that if we could capture and store the #AtmosphericRiver and #Flashflood/#Monsoon-type rainfalls regionally, that would also be a huge game-changer.

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