On: What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

[pixl97]

Furthermore at the end of the steel structures lifespan it will be recycled in a manner that is far more energy efficient, requiring only 25% of the total energy. And that's in the case it wasn't from recycled materials in the first place.

[Maxion → pixl97]

The fact that HN is filled with so many who are weirdly against renewable energy is baffling.

Yo! Wake up sheep! Solar and wind energy are the two cheapest and least polluting ways we have of producing energy!

[rsynnott → Maxion]

HN is kinda ground-zero for i-am-very-smart contrarians, so it's not _that_ surprising.

(Also, in the US, "solar panels take more energy to make than they produce" is a popular, although entirely false, talking point in right-wing media, so propaganda plays a part too. This claim has also been made about wind, and, bafflingly, _nuclear_.)