- This is desert golf-course logic. Add shade. Add water. Call it “greening.” Celebrate. Pretend there were no adverse consequences of diverting water from somewhere else.
- Where are they diverting the water from. You realise there are many places there with excess water? Just watered, the area would lose it all. But the added shade helps the ground there retain it, promoting growth which again promotes moisture retention. Are they turning somewhere else into a desert?Feb 3, 2026 03:32
- You realize there are no places with excess water? Water supports biodiversity wherever it exists. It always has.
- OK. Let's say, as Tibet is the third largest freshwater producing place in the world, that parts of it have, if not abundant, plenty of water. The amount used for washing solar panels in no way affects the biodiversity found in the places it is diverted from. P
- That is simply not true. You’re having an exceptionally close relationship with Dunning Kruger.
- I'd like to add, I'm in no way meaning this as justification of all this ongoing nonsense of unfettered growth of power production. Just saying that no matter what ANYONE says, China IS going to build power plants. And solar panels is by far, except wind, the least water extractive way presently.
