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Solar power is working wonders for rural and urban Pakistan. In fact, we became the largest importer of solar panels.
by pythonbase 1y ago
Solar power is working wonders for rural and urban Pakistan. In fact, we became the largest importer of solar panels.
- jahnu 1y agoI learned about it on this episode of Volts Fascinating consequences https://www.volts.wtf/p/pakistans-solar-boom https://www.volts.wtf/p/pakistans-solar-boom
- subscribed 1y agoThis is actually fantastic news. I wonder if you're also utilising their secondary purpose (shading and improving microclimat https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004896972105021X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...)
- hinkley 1y agoIndia has had good luck building solar panels over irrigation canals. The shade substantially reduces the evaporation losses in the canal system. The framing is a bit tricky of course.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoCalifornia announced they were going to do the same.
- hinkley 1y agoYeah the channelized sections of the Colorado would be a good candidate as well, though I personally believe the bigger solution is reintroducing beavers into the upper water shed, to increase total average flow.
- sand500 1y agoHow do beavers increase total water flow? I can see them causing more water to be held upstream.
- dwood_dev 1y agoIt's counterintuitive, but beavers fundamentally change the soil conditions and cause a lot of the overall flow to be away from the surface. Beavers are one of the sadly misunderstood creatures and are almost entirely responsible for all the good valley farmland we have thanks to their thousands of years of terraforming. If you can afford the medium term loss of land, a beaver setting up a dam on your property is a good thing. Unfortunately, most cannot, or are unaware of the benefits they bring and only consider them pests.
- hinkley 1y agoForests make rain, and beavers make better forests.