Urbanization had encroached vast of our living spaces for both humans, animals and gadgets, and this gadets needs to be powered to serve humanity their purposes of been fabricated. This is once a dilema for Megalopolis and Cities, how to solve energy generation without affecting the living populace was the headache.
Then, along came renewable energy; Just like the blockchain technology. The most abundant of all renewables- Solar Energy to the rescue. It has been in existence since the creation of the World till some great minds came up with ideas on how to harness this Energy from the Sun and put it to optimum use.
Now it gets more interesting as the World's largest floatimg Solar Power plant is now online in China's Huainan city, in the Eastern Anhui province. As strange as it sounds, this solar farm is floating on a flooded old coal-mining area.
As the highest investors in Renewable energies across the World, such as Hydro and Solar power, China beats every other countries in Energy generation(espcially from this two mentioned means). Although floating system had been used in the past, it's major advantages are;
They don't consume land space.
Secondly, the cooling effects of the water on the panels which contributes to it's high efficiency.
The United Kingdom owns the largest floating solar plant before with a 6.3 Mega Watts power generation before China's 40 Mega Watts arrays came online and surpassing all.
Practically, this 40-MW floating facility that was constructed over a flooded former coal-mine could power a small town efficiently.
Floating Solar farms are becoming increasingly popular around the world because of their unique designs which addresses multiple efficiency ans city planning problems.