Meet the startup building solar farms that float on the ocean's surface

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : "Floating PV enables the expansion of renewable energies without the use of additional land and that is in our particular interest.
57% : But the difficulty of finding apt sites for renewable energy in mountainous or thickly populated countries like Japan, and in isolated island and costal nations, like those in the Caribbean, makes the idea of offshore solar parks an attractive entrepreneurial endeavor.
57% : Its potential is far greater: the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimates that adding floating solar power to existing hydropower reservoirs could supply almost half of current global electricity demand.
45% :"We focus on countries which don't have the space to build solar on a large scale, so they cannot profit from the low electricity prices that solar energy can bring," says de Swart.
43% : For legitimate reasons, renewable energy analysts have doubts.
42% : "I saw that solar energy had nothing holding it back to become the cheapest energy source on the planet," he says.
39% : The cost of solar energy was still high but starting to come down.

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