Japan Is Dropping a Gargantuan Turbine Into The Ocean to Harness 'Limitless' Energy

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11. No, you just have to dust the panels off after a windstorm

and those are pretty frequent occurrences here in the high desert. The local utility company loves them, no moving parts to break down. We;ve got all the sunshine anyone could ask for. What we don't have is adequate water for nuke plants using water coolant/moderation and steam driven turbines.

Here is a page of stats so far: https://350newmexico.org/clean-energy-in-new-mexico/

HOw dry is it? Our one real body of water, the Elephant Butte Reservoir, is at 11.2% capacity. That's worse than Lake Powell and Lake Mead. The Rio Grande is bone dry for long stretches here and in Texas. We have little enough in good years. This year has not been good.

https://sourcenm.com/2021/09/18/memory-of-a-river/

Solar and wind power here are necessary to lower our dependence on coal. Until some new tech matures, it's all we've got.