Mastodawn

Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds and thriving oases in the middle of the desert

#Erneuerbare #Renewable #GoodNews
ecoportal.net/en/solar-panels-…

The article published in Science has detailed how massive solar arrays in the Sahara Desert have started to trigger increased rainfall and vegetation growth.

They drastically lower the temperature around the sand that they sit on, effectively “greening” the desert. As the warm air around the panels has nowhere else to go but up, they naturally form massive rainclouds in a part of the world known for its dryness.

Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds and thriving oases in the middle of the desert

A recent study has found an unexpected benefit from the undisputed king of the renewable energy sector as solar panels are creating rain clouds in the desert.

ecoportal.net

Show thread

Frans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋 FKNZS🔻2d ago

@hoergen Yeah but... Do we want this? The climate catastrophe gives us more wind and rain or extra drought... and again we choose to alter the Sahara climate causing winds and rainstorms and stuff...
Is that truly the way ahead?

Show thread

Seth G.2d ago

@apenkop @hoergen Maybe it's incentive to do more of this in the places with declining habitats instead of those naturally devoid of one.

Show thread

Stephen Beitzel 2d ago

@secbox “…naturally devoid of one.” Hm. You know that the outline of the Sahara has changed radically over time, right? And that it has changed dramatically even over the relatively short period of time for which we have written records? And that *some* of that change may be attributable to human intervention?

So, are you asserting that you know what it *ought* to look like? That there is some One True State of the planet from which any deviance should be shunned and toward which all effort should be bent? And you know what effect any given action will have?

Show thread

Seth G.

@pirateguillermo Nope. I'm just saying that humanity should focus on fixing what it knows it has damaged in the environment instead of trying to guide the course of nature.