Great idea, for California. Kills two birds with one stone

[Southern man]

Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd

Sad but true.

If they can get this settled quickly maybe they can get a few hundred Billion from Biden and his infrastructure plans.



Is it too soon to miss Trump and his attempts at cutting the red tape of the Feds to implement innovative ideas like this but of course if his name was attached to it the idea would never see the light of day.

Its not too soon.

[kamban]

Originally Posted by Oldhag1

I was just thinking the same thing. This does seem like it would not be good for foliage.

But I thought it was only suspended over the water in the canal and hence there is no effect on any plants or trees.

I see the benefits as

less water loss
no additional destruction or encroachment of land for the solar panels
electricity generation.

[Corrie22]

Originally Posted by madison999

The law of unintended consequences should be interesting with this one.

yep....when they have to get in there to clean out the weeds and gunk