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How to double the country’s power, no land required (i.stuff.co.nz)
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While this looks promising, I'm not sure I like the idea of introducing more plastic into our waterways. Does anyone know if our filteration systems are capable of filtering out micro/nanoplastics?

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[–] Ilovethebomb 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also make a valid point that people will not accept the loss of these areas for recreation, or any effect the loss of sunlight will have on the ecology of the lake.

I can really only see it being accepted on purely artificial lakes, such as wastewater treatment or water reservoirs.

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, no boat/bootie uses up amy more than a tiny fraction of a percentage of a lake. Put them outside of designated lanes, probably within 200m of shore where boats should avoid and go slow anyway and are we really losing anything? I mean, would swimmers care if they can't use 5% of a beach?

[–] Ilovethebomb 2 points 1 year ago

It would depend what the reduced sunlight does to fish stocks etc.

On a hydro lake, you wouldn't want them too close to shore, or else it would end up aground at low lake levels.