FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): Solar Panels are set to take on the water in a new pioneering initiative.
Community leaders will get a close-up view of the installation of the solar panels that will float on water. The event takes place at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday.
Mayor Tom Henry, elected officials, city utilities and solential energy will be on hand to watch the $8-million project take float.
The the region’s first floatovoltaic solar system aims to reduce the costs of electric bills at both filtration and wastewater plants.
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Instead of the water absorbing all the radiation from the sun and keeping the air temperature relatively cool, the solar panels will create a “Heat Island” and raise the ambient air temperature by 10 degrees even through the night. I’m sure the neighborhoods along Lake Avenue won’t care about how much hotter the area will be.
We couldn’t match the contour of the boundaries??
Little tacky, …yeah?
Regardless.. maybe this is a just a quick way to keep the anti-solar farm protestors happy?
The Canadian Goose populous is not going to be happy about this development, however! How many will lose their lives to this floating monstrosity?
Least they could have done.. would be a few strips of hydroponic green houses… some wave capture devices and.. some small-scale wind mills.