I  assume those canals aren't used for any sort of transport function
which requires boats on them then ?

On Tue, 2022-04-05 at 06:41 -0400, Thomas Jones-Low - tjoneslow at
gmail.com (via tml list) wrote:
> On 4/4/2022 4:59 PM, Bruce Johnson - johnson at Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU
> (via tml
> list) wrote:
> > I have often wondered why solar panels aren’t backed with some sort
> > of water
> > cooling systems; the hot water produced could simply be used as
> > such or the sort
> > of heat transfer mechanism they use for solar water heating in
> > places where it
> > would freeze (iirc they use ethylene glycol as the working fluid,
> > and dump the
> > heat into the water tank) as solar cell efficiency going down as a
> > function of
> > heat is a well known issue in hot climates, to the point where it
> > affects the
> > square footage of panel needed to produce a particular nominal
> >  power generation.
> >
> >
>
> 	I know there are repeated plans to put solar panels over the
> water canals used
> in California and Arizona. This would a) generate power, b) reduce
> the
> evaporation from said canals, and c) allow the panels to generate
> more power
> because the back of the panels are cooler.
>
> 	The reason for not having done this is mostly political
> inertia.
>
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