Author: Philip Warburg via Yale Environment360

  • Floating Solar: A Win-Win for Drought-Stricken Lakes in U.S.

    The Colorado River’s two great reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are in retreat. Multi-year droughts and chronic overuse have taken their toll, to be sure, but vast quantities of water are also lost to evaporation. What if the same scorching sun that causes so much of this water loss were harnessed for electric power? Installing floating solar…