Europe’s largest floating solar farm is ready to switch on. Built on a reservoir, (the Queen Elizabeth II), near Heathrow airport in Britain, the solar array is to supply energy to a water treatment plant, the sort of facility that places a huge and often little-recognised drain on electricity.
The farm, which is the size of eight football pitches, is expected to generate 5.8 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year.
Solar panels are a great source of energy, but they do not allow for …
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Post time: Feb-11-2017