Germany stood 2,600 solar panels dead upright on a Bavarian lake, edge-on to the sun, because a law says you can shade 15% of the water and not an inch more, and the rows lean like sails on underwater keels when the wind loads up
KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 Germany constructed a floating solar farm the place each panel stands completely vertical—not because it is extra environment friendly, however because a law limits how a lot shade you can forged on a lake, and that constraint compelled an engineering resolution no one had tried at this scale earlier than. The vertical panels truly…
