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Great idea, but very expensive and probably no warranty or maintenance involved. They always come up with great ideas but they just don’t seem to think about the maintenance costs afterwards. 

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7 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

Cheapest energy production method in the world. No real estate cost in a small country with a large population.

 

China, Japan, and South Korea are developing large-scale floating solar farms.

No part of Thailand I spent time in had a reliable wind strong enough to generate a good f**t.

I suspect the real reason for wind farms in LOS is to generate lotsacash for the usual suspects.

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12 minutes ago, jcmj said:

Great idea, but very expensive and probably no warranty or maintenance involved. They always come up with great ideas but they just don’t seem to think about the maintenance costs afterwards. 

I don't think there is a Thai word for "maintenance".

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There is no such thing as "renewable" or "green" energy. Those are just marketing terms. All technology, especially "energy-creating" technology, pollutes and costs more energy than it ever makes available for human use. No technology "creates" energy; it just harvests existing energy from one source, usually converts it, and then makes it available for human use in another source. Good examples of these are both solar and wind-powered energy technologies. 

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1 hour ago, pattayasan said:

 

Solar, wind, uranium and coal don't create energy, they release it. While it takes energy to produce solar cells and windmills, the ROI must be in favor of the ergs out / ergs in ratio. That's the case for every method of energy "production" ever devised by man.

You're correct, except the ergs out /ergs in always show a net "loss" of ergs. These ergs are called "lost' because they are unusable by humans and are called "pollution." Most of them are egrs in the form of heat. 

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1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

Renewable energy and green energy are technical terms; not marketing term. It refers to energy from natural source in a way that doesn't harm the environment. 

There are no forms of energy that we harvest from any source that does not harm the environment. All technology harms the environment.

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54 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

There are no forms of energy that we harvest from any source that does not harm the environment. All technology harms the environment.

Let's limit ourselves to the drive towards renewable energies to reduce greenhouse gases from fossil fuels. 

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The clever ones will find a way to burn off the stubble from those solar farms. Burning off is a tradition, and they won't let a bit of water stand in the way of choking the population

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6 hours ago, john donson said:

maybe the heat will release lots of micro plastics in the water... we all know how healthy that is, right

 

Funny how no one ever talks about this.......As the plastic ages a 100% certainty  that mico plastic will end up in the drinking water...

 

Not to mention electricity and water are a very poor mix..

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Don't those solar panels contain metal contaminants? What happens if there are accidents and these panels get flushed to the bottom of the dams?

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5 hours ago, redwood1 said:

 

Funny how no one ever talks about this.......As the plastic ages a 100% certainty  that mico plastic will end up in the drinking water...

 

Not to mention electricity and water are a very poor mix..

Water from Thai dams is not used for drinking water, most of Thai drinking water comes from underground aqua's.

Or some might end up on farmers' fields, as water is pumped out for irrigation. 

As for water and electicity mixing, look up the world's largest floating solar farm.

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37 minutes ago, kickstart said:

Water from Thai dams is not used for drinking water, most of Thai drinking water comes from underground aqua's.

Or some might end up on farmers' fields, as water is pumped out for irrigation. 

As for water and electicity mixing, look up the world's largest floating solar farm.

 

Where did you get this ridiculous idea from?

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On 11/13/2024 at 4:28 PM, snoop1130 said:

the development of the 14 floating solar farms

 

Poor quality materials will corrode after a year or so, but then TAT can repurpose them like the famous wind farm island.

 

These will make excellent night market tourist attractions!

 

But something tells me the local sellers won't wait for the official decommissioning.

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I look at these sort of things and wonder about the carbon footprint it made to make this. Bit of cost benefit analyses. Bit like EV's. I wonder how many of the faithful think about the coal they're burning whilst sipping on their latte which has been made by burning coal whilst being good environmentally aware people whilst charging their car at a station from electricity produced by coal. It would be a good study to break down EV ownership across the voting public in the US election. What do you reckon Dems or Republicans for the highest % for EV ownership?

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17 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:


Yawn.

You do realise Thailand already has the world's largest floating solar farm (45 MW) and it has been running smoothly since 2020-1. It hasn't corroded (glass doesn't corrode, neither does the HDPE that the moorings are made from) . It is made from very high quality materials and is well maintained. Locals haven't stolen it. This story is a continuation of the long term plan to expand it to another 15 or so reservoirs.

Seriously take your jaded nonsense and just go away. I can't stand these constant negative, anti Thai posts on almost every topic, it is boring.

Watch this and maybe learn something.
 


 

 

Sorry to piss in your fish sauce, pal.

There's an ignore button.

I invite you to use it.

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