Floating solar recap article

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Floating solar recap article

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I like the look of the Oceansun setup.

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I've seen quite a few things about floating solar on lakes - but never so far out at sea - that's certainly quite an additional engineering challenge to solve.
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dan_b wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:31 am I've seen quite a few things about floating solar on lakes - but never so far out at sea - that's certainly quite an additional engineering challenge to solve.
I like the pre float buffer breakwater idea built with low cost materials
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At least disposal is taken care of, just let it sink into Ocean.
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Swwils wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:26 pm At least disposal is taken care of, just let it sink into Ocean.
Well that's helpful. Don't forget to drop the designers a note mentioning that. I'm sure they'll send a box of chocolates. ;)
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