I had a thought provoking discussion this past week about solar panels and drought. The discussion was, well, let's say outside the box. The key question is, if solar panels can get so hot they can disintegrate a bird, how much moisture do the panels remove from the air? I just read that newer solar panels actually take moisture from the air and condense it into water to cool the panels.
Solar panels are in high use in California. Nearly every house we saw last year in that state had them. California's droughts had gotten increasingly worse. Granted, this may be attributed to the water use. But it also seems the more solar panels they use the worse the droughts get.
This lends a little credence to the theory, the increased use of solar panels is making droughts worse and preventing Pacific ocean moisture from coming into and past California. It doesn't rain much on the majority of the west coast, but typically when the Pacific moisture hits the western mountains, it starts raining.
Of course, I'm not a weather scientist or even guru but shouldn't this theory be researched?
Solar panels are in high use in California. Nearly every house we saw last year in that state had them. California's droughts had gotten increasingly worse. Granted, this may be attributed to the water use. But it also seems the more solar panels they use the worse the droughts get.
This lends a little credence to the theory, the increased use of solar panels is making droughts worse and preventing Pacific ocean moisture from coming into and past California. It doesn't rain much on the majority of the west coast, but typically when the Pacific moisture hits the western mountains, it starts raining.
Of course, I'm not a weather scientist or even guru but shouldn't this theory be researched?
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