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BBC asks "Could floating solar farms survive out at sea?", and I think that's the wrong question. -- (link)

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Jan 9 '23, 20:30

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I want to answer the question, could floating solar CITIES survive out at sea? (www.bbc.com)

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I've heard the suggestion to use these pods to generate hydrogen, to avoid needing to wire back to shore. -- nm - psilotum Jan 9, 20:42 5
- I wonder what the math on that would look like. How many square feet of solar to generate X amount of hydrogen... -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 20:43 4
  - This quickly got over my head, but here it is... -- (link) - psilotum Jan 9, 20:47 3
    - short version: sure, but salt water is bad for things and wtf do you do with all the chlorine. -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 20:53 2
      - The chlorine can go on the freshwater swimming pools on the sea floaties. -- nm - Ender Jan 9, 23:54
      - (except in conclusion, they made a thing that salt water kinda got along with, for a longer while than normal at least) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 20:54
if you can engineer an oil rig for the north sea, it's probably technically possible, just maybe not economically feasible. -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 20:35

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