Comment by forgotoldacc

I like the idea of solar and support it in general, but the implementation is some places is bizarre. Instead of building solar panels over parking lots, putting them on top of buildings, or using them as covers over fields of crops sensitive to sunlight, lots of places have clear cut forests and absolutely covered mountainsides with them. The reason being that it's cheap and out of sight for most people.

The vision now might not be to fill the sea with these turbines. But if it turns out they can be made cheaply and deployed cheaply, easily broken machines that nobody will take responsibility for will definitely be littering the oceans by the millions.