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Mash333 · 2 · 1d ago AI picture
The only source for this is from AI pics on Facebook.
Why?
K.D. Keenan · 0 · 1d ago www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/f...
Showing leadership and stewardship.
I was calling for such a system months before I found out this existed! Yay Spain!
Just build the solar panels on land and strengthen grid capacity and avoid this moronic idiocy.
Imagine pitching someone straight faced higher initial capital costs, higher maintenance, higher risk exposure - for a miniscule *efficiency* gain (note, per solar panel, not Euro invested)
Aside from the obvious factual errors and AI slop, this is also typical green slop. Sounds nice, but highly impractical, and if you didn't know better you'd assume it to be a hostile rat fucking operation to dissuade people from actually functional solutions.
Yea but WE are the greatest right?
Wrong Geography. Gran Canaria is in the Atlantic not the Mediterranean. It lies off the coast of Africa. Basic geography.
Meanwhile in the US Trump wants to dismantle wind projects, refit the navy with stream catapults, bring back coal, and decimate our national parks for corrupt cash flow.
We’re getting are asses kicked. We should be the leaders. Get big money out of politics
We tried to get big money out of politics, but big money and religious superstition bought us a SCOTUS who ruled big money and religion could do whatever the f**k they want.
I think you should change your name to Nottie Zackley-True
In AMERICA it’s NOT just for CHRISTMAS anymore!!! And bringing back LEADED Gasoline ⛽️… American ingenuity 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
You’re somewhat correct. It’s funding from Norway and the EU for a floating solar demonstrator project at Tazacorte, La Palma. Not at Gran Canaria, not in the Med. It will look nothing like the image supplied. Look for PLOCAN/BOOST, Ocean Sun.
I dont like it. Theres so many other good choices for solar panel placement other than covering up more natural space.
1. AI 2. Worst place to put those.
Mean while the US continues to try to destroy the planet using fossil fuels.
Do you suppose the shade would also help protect reefs from bleaching?
This is an AI generated photo. No such facility exists. There are small pilot projects on calm inland reservoirs and lakes. And pilot solar desalination projects but none built on water. Google it.
I’m okay with reading the link. I don’t trust pictures now that ai distorts reality. Just ignore the photo
www.greenmemag.com/energy/spain...
ignore the text as well
Do you use AI to determine if ai ?
GO AWAY
I don't even need ai. It lists more than 3 functions, claims water and space are "daily headaches". They are not. That's just the first line. Nonsense.
We need nice things like this.
A European Socialist country leading the way on climate resilience
Some people, obviously not Spaniards, need to be dragged towards their own salvation. It takes a nation not obsessed with everything oil- & gas-centric to teach other nations how to move forward. A national infrastructure of pipelines for water, not oil and gas, needs to be started NOW.
Hopefully, one day the US will join the party.
👍
This is fantastic!
Cool 😎 engineers are such nerds.
I hope that thing went thru a rigorous environmental review process.
That's so cool. The US has a president that rapes lil kids
Like the solar power but not the effect of taking saltwater from the Mediterraean. Seems unsustainable to me.
So many creative and inventive solutions to the energy and clean water problems and NONE of them happen in America. Why is that?
Big oil paid into the Trump campaign and in return Trump is systematically stopping green energy projects. They are in litigation.
Big oil has stifled our country from high speed rail mass transit and much more!
Corrupt gov officials have totally fkd the USA in every way possible!!
You are a complete moron if you think "NONE" of them happen in America.
We have plenty of projects happening & the share of energy produced from renewable sources increases every year. Even in the detrimental federal environment we have today, states are moving forward with green energy projects.
Donald Trump is a fool and only thinks of filling his own bank account… and to heck with the advancement of green energy and possiblyhelping our environment!
thehill.com/policy/energ...
Bribery money from the big oil companies was too enticing for __________________.
This isn't real. AI slop
www.un.org/sites/un2.un...
This is 5 years old, it didn't "just open"
The document you linked to is land based. Doesn't float.
The production numbers are night and day different from what you posted.
Try again, AI trash guy
So, basically proposals, ideas, suggestions, a tiny proof of concept and not much more… in other words, nothing like what you claimed.
Because Donnie is too dumb to understand how they work other than we get the benefits and he can't find a suitable scam for him to profit by
Hell, Trumpus Rex wants to take us back in time to the good ol days of steam locomotives and coal fired factories.
Donald Trump has always been a dumb azz now he’s a dumb azz with dementia.
Way to go Republican magas!!
We have to make it happen ourselves!!!
One word, one person--Trump.
Because America has too many arrogant and greedy assh@les who stomp any idea that they refuse to accept or won’t make a rich jerk even richer
Capitalism is TOXIC🤬
Oregon has been instrumental developing wave/electric conversion tech for decades. Trump is doing his best to cancel it.
Where does the waste brine go?
What do they do with the salt?
It would be awesome of America had a president who actually loved America and worked to ensure our citizens and its country were his top priority. Instead we have a every low IQ individual who is interested is stealing everything that can be stolen. A convicted criminal, is the fucking president.
Adapted to hydrolysis a similar installation could produce green hydrogen for transportation virtually forever.
It's worth using globally .. wonderful works
lol the only mainstream news article about this is a Yahoo News story, and the one source it cites is a post by an Instagram clickbait account
Wow! Washington DC has a reflecting pool that’s growing green glop and burping rancid water. I’ll bet Spain is envious of Trump’s invention at our national mall.
Looks pretty ugly though. If I had a house in that place I would die!
Every project counts 😀
Spain - impressive
www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/f...
But we mine for coal!
I’m sure some good coal plants could’ve solved this problem.
Smart use of technology
Lol
Oops...
There's still room for improvement in AI, I guess
If there was room for AI in our diminishing world.
Alas it looks to be the final straw, the last nail in the coffin.
An exponential gorging on the declining natural resources needed to sustain life.
I agree 100%
What a shame…a nice and ambitious sounding project and it’s fake.
The tech is real. They are working on and testing similar ideas. This image and the claim of it's effective deployment is fake. Idk why people do this. It feels like a psyop to see what progressive-minded folks will fall for.
It is absolutely that.
Clearly too smart for the US to consider it.
The way forward
Fkin ugly
Everywhere but the States. Oil is the states love.😵💫
Watching the world move forward from a place going backwards with a vengeance.
If it’s black won’t that just heat up the med even more?? And as a local the sea horribly hot right now now. And that will move more water into the atmosphere and then it will drop on the land.
Gran Canaria is not in the Mediterranean, but apart from that, yes, more of this please. #wehavethesolutions
~ ~ It looks like other countries are surpassing us in terms of innovation and science. That's because of the very poor leadership we have. Trump and ALL OF THE CABINET are ridiculous game show hosts and his audience is delusional.
Not even. We are being beat at implementation , we are able to intentionally snatch defeat from the jaws of victory ie pulling permits on an approved offshore wind farm in construction ,etc
We are own goaling our future
That photo may not be real, but the solar/water stuff is. Some billionaire needs to send one to Puerto Rico.
www.yahoo.com/news/science...
Yes, but even this article is based on some instagram account called 'engineering facts' - I'd like some serious news links, which automatically means "not yahoo" :D
(I've been looking for Spanish sources, can't find anything.)
AI generated image, also fake
And then we have the assholes here jn America building ballrooms.....I can't
Well done, Spain!
This tech does not exist yet
I thought solar energy was woke
It is. Woke means you’re awake, your brain is functioning and you accept smart ideas in addition to caring about others.
but, but but its not a ballroom!!!
If its real why use an AI picture though - I smell bullshit
I found this
www.offshore-energy.biz/spanish-floa...
That article is valencia, nowhere near Gean Canaria, and it's a concept trial.
All I said was this is what I found.
www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/f...
Secondary source, everything links back to Facebook or Instagram.
Research will help you learn, here's two (2) links to begin with. If you take a few minutes to try to read you will find much more about all the advancements that are being done & the plans for green energy in countries internationally. The US tries to stop this
yahoo.com/news
cleantechnica.com
Skill issue: I googled “Spain floating solar” and got a peer reviewed publication assessing economic viability, check up the thread I pasted it.🙄
It's an economic assessment of the viability of hypothetical offshore solar platforms. No where in the paper are the terms "osmosis" "Gran Canaria" or "desalination" written.
Omg you have to read. It’s literally in the article that they analyzed real solar farms at the sites listed.
Muted bc you sound either stupid or troll-like
A very mature answer as expected from someone who "after 5 seconds" had found a read a tens of thousands of words long paper, then claimed it was an "article" that doesn't contain any keywords to validate the original claims.
Right, the island sits somewhere in the Atlantic. The next storm will have real fun with it. That's why they have 30 feet high concrete walls around their marinas.
This account mostly posts AI bullshit.
If I recall correctly they posted some other green energy project a while back w/ AI images & the project hadn't even entered the construction phase yet.
The account could very well be an AI bot.
Plenty of REAL projects to post & instead we get AI slop.
Because they may not have a proper one to show yet. This has been done for decades in all sorts of fields, whereby they show a drawing or a render of future products in situ.
Because no sane government will put that in such a picturesque spot and ruin their tourism.
Its a concept and I believe it would work because only a few weeks ago I was talking about pumpin sea water inland to homes and having desalination units installed at each home, so its not totaly far fetched.
Gran Canaria, while part of Spain, is in the Canary islands off the coast of Africa, not in the Mediterranean.
Also, Gran Canaria, that island famously on the Mediterranean… 🙄
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ai;dr
And we’re spending our time and resources on gilding statues!
We should be doing something like this.
Cracking if true 👍🤞
This smells of "feel-good, I-think-they-should AI", but really false.
Solar is real, desalinization is real, but why make it more vulnerable and hard to maintain by proposing it floating on the water instead of near a beach?
THEN recycle the water to a data center that was built in a nearby old industrial area and is now entirely off the grid with its own recycled water?
Spain is having some kind of renaissance! Great for them & probably good for all of us.
Out standing. Humans will bend this arch back to less radical atmospherics globally the more we green energy solutions we do.
Awesome!
We could have nice things with a new government 🤨
What happens to this in a storm?
The AI didn't consider this.
Do a google search and look at the images and there are dozens of pictures of this thing. The problem is that every picture is different, and likely AI generated. Here is a link to a legit article with an actual photo, which is a barge with solar panels.. knowledge.energyinst.org/new-energy-w...
I thought of this project a while ago… I wish I was rich enough to make something like this happen, despite having no part in it, it’s still cool to see it come to life.
Smart! CLEAN! What is the USA doing? Bringing back mining coal, drilling oil in all our PROTECTED LANDS! Shame on American billionaires. Their greed has NO BOUNDS! DJT MUST GO, NOW! Mr. Destroyer! 💯 %. Don't NO ONE want to remember him, remove his name OFF everything! 😈 His evil must be destroyed!
Ai trash
lösch
And our administration is focused on coal and AI
America used to do innovative things like this, it's really, really hard to see all the other countries around the world making such amazing things that help the environment and people to live better lives. Too bad we can't have those things anymore.
Also, the Canary Islands are in the atlantic, off the coast of Africa (Morocco and Western Sahara), not in the Mediterranean
Gran Canaria is not in the Mediterranean.
That glaring mistake and the AI slop image makes me think this whole thing is a lie.
Brilliant.
I like it - but Spain is also doing THIS, which is dead wrong:
#banoctopusfarms #stopeatingoctopus #spain
These plans have been stopped.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
woo hoo! :)
Well, now I’m emotionally spent 
heh - but not in a bad way - for once!
If tRump gave a crap about the American people, this would be the kind of thing he'd be promoting. But no. He denies climate change to appease big oil. 💰🤬
Add wave and tidal power to that contraption and youve got a winner.
Gran Canaria is in the Atlantic, not Med. Does nobody study geography anymore?!😆
But will it enrich the rich? #DrillBabyDrill
Time for America to catch up with innovating solar and drinking water solutions. Great idea.
Is solar really the answer? Where will we be with it in a few decades? How far will we have encroached by then? Where are broken panels going? I envision this being an absolute nightmare for our already suffering ocean life. We know that enough is never enough for humans.
youtu.be/Y5BTR4UgRi0?...
Alex Fasulo is a right wing activist and conspiracy theorist heated.world/p/the-influe...
Interesting. Cruise ships use desalination, but not in port due to too much silt close to shore. How can this technology create fresh water in the same environment?
This is pure AI slop... the project remains in early developmental stages. Nothing is worse for renewables than this sort of exageration.
That is about the only way desalination makes sense. It is a huge energy draw.
It is such a shame; all of this could have happened decades ago.
Meanwhile, in TRUMPERICA he’s killing off wind and solar 🤬
Gran Canaria is in the Atlantic Ocean, not in the "Mediterranean"...
If we in America think we lead the way in anything, we are the idiots the world believes that we are…
Brilliant!
looks like so many places in the world are finally waking up....yet here in north america, we are still snoring.
No source and AI generated photo. Either take down or provide link to source for this claim. Really bad dude.
Read the post. Why was I able to find a link ?
www.greenmemag.com/energy/spain...
Not even the same island as the OP's post, and also 240 times smaller in terms of power. Come on now.
there are fake magazines and fake news organizations to distribute AI slop. I don't know anyplace but Snopes to figure out what is true, but Snopes works
But I’m not dumb & lazy. I can use other sources.
www.ebsco.com/research-sta...
You haven’t deleted this yet ? Oh mate .
Nope . This is completely fabricated. Both the AI slop photo and the megawatt project are false .
That's very cool. What an interesting concept!
So wonderful new technology...
In America, the GOP is bringing back COAL...
Soon I will be churning my own butter!
Congrats to all nations speeding eons ahead of the once respected USA.
PLEASE SAVE THIS PLANET💙💙💙
Any explanation Mr. @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social why people in the thread are saying this is fake?
Cause it is.
Wanted to give him some grace to provide an explanation.
Check his reply tab. He responds with a link to an article that disproves his ai slop post. And claims he verified by.. Asking Copilot.
Theres no grace there. He just farms likes.
Gran Canaria in Mediterranean?
does it remove the sea salt as well? or is it concentrating the salinity in the area? the local fish want to know
SLOP
wow. take this AI slop down.
Is reverse osmosis more effiecient than distillation? I guess they must have done the calculations on that. Presumably they've hardened the array against wave action & storms. It just doesn't look very strong. (???)
California absolutely should look into this.
I’ve been saying this for years. Desalinate!
Disgusting.
Wow thats fantastic !
Wonder how long before the fossil fuel boys buy it and dismantle?
Hm. Is it near Gran Canaria or is it in the Mediterranean as the picture claims?
Because those two things cannot be true at the same time.
Why add you peddling this ai slop nonsense?
FFS are not add.
Aren't the canary Islands not in the Mediterranean?
Right. But the rest is accurate: www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/f...
Nope .
I'm sure it's just a typo, and doesn't really trouble me, but, if anything, it makes it more impressive as the sea conditions are going to be tougher.
A bunch of people have told me that the article I cited was also fake. At this point, I admit I am unwilling to go full-on detective and track it down, but i thought I'd mention it to you. It's become very difficult to determine fact fron fiction these days.
I'll have a look, good news if true.
Then delete your posts claiming it's real. You're just contributing to the spread of disinformation
I've deleted all the ones I could find.
We are starting to look like a bunch of stupids here in the USA. Are we f**king great yet?
So unique!
Nice work!
I am old enough to remember when the US were innovators and the world to us.
trump and his cabal has been turning us into a third world country.
Courageous leadership is emerging around the world. Our lack of it is our downfall.
The OP seems to be reposting a fake story based on a true story. There is a pilot program for a combined floating solar/desalinization plant in the Canary Islands.
www.offshore-energy.biz/ocean-sun-le...
If that’s a real picture, it’s fairly ugly. 😵💫
Ah, I see the whole thing is AI slop.
This is exactly what I suggested in a reply about a week ago. I didn't realize the tech had been developed.
LIAR.
This is what the world needs to be focusing attention on, not killing each other.
Brilliant! I wish we could have nice things.
I just saw yesterday that Japan has streets that use tiles so that the kinetic energy of walking creates energy to power some of their systems. The world is so far ahead in green innovation, while Trump is going back to the 50's. The 1850's.
It's not just him. The government is so afraid to move forward with a energy Renaissance. God forbid you cost those coal state senators the coal vote. Imagine if they did the same with oil? God forbid you use nuclear or solar on home roofs. We can't have that. That's not merican... 🫠
It’s so dangerous and so embarrassing.
This is an older story about a test. Unfortunately the test failed to provide enough energy to be useable (generated enough to recharge a phone basically).
They do however do plenty with wind and solar, and are slowly fixing and safely bringing back into use many of their nuclear power stations.
The rest of the world is advancing science and technology to enhance humanity while Trump and the Republican party fucks America its people and turns the US into a - oh what were Trumps words? " A shit hole country"
I particularly loved when he said that only 'loser' countries and 'failed' states had windmills.
The US has the second highest number of wind turbines of any country in the world, after China.
So when will The Predator in Chief offer them billions to dismantle it.
They'd better keep the location secret. Big oil won't hesitate to destroy it if they can get away with it
Sadly, America can't even have windmills
I heard they kill birds
But that came from that one guy
This kind of AI nonsense should be taken down. 👎
This is what data center should be required to do, produce their own power and cooling. So if it’s such a profitable wonderful thing and they get to use my data for free; What the hell why not?
AI is bullshit
And also, Gran Canaria is not in the Mediterranean.
How to identify a click bait AI* generated happy green post:
The image is very generative - too nice or too cheesy.
The text is white on black background below image with key words in yellow.
*AI = Always Indians
Not here in the US.
We’re still in the drill baby drill phase of our de-evolution 
Brilliant
If you can make it run on coal, we'll probably embrace it here in the US.
Muy bien hecho España!
What happens when intelligent see a country that makes use of their ability rather than scream woke. They decide this backward hicktown of a country needs a reset and move to another
True FASCISM is the #POWER of this CONSUMER society
-Pasolini
• EXTRACTION of #silicon to MANUFACTURE solar PANELS leads to #POLLUTION & DEFORESTATION, requires ENERGY from FOSSIL fuel sources, #GENERATE industrial waste and greenhouse GASES
Let's #DESTROY work & economy
> REQUISITION-EMANCIPATION
There is hope folks!
Pic or it didn't happen.
(That there is not a pic of anything that exists)
Shoe on solar panel, Yerp
Genius
This is not in existence at that scale.
For reference that would potentially power almost 10% of all island homes & we’d hear about it in more places than Facebook or Yahoo News aggregators. It would be a topic of deep study, especially as a hybrid technology operating at that scale. 🤷🏾♂️
If it's of Gran Canaria, it is in the ATLANTIC
Ai image. Trash article
So which is it? Gran Canaria or the Mediterranean?
Is this the actual device pictured, or is it AI slop?
Sorry,Putin doesn't want that for the U.S.A. We won't have it for a couple of more years!
OOOH - don't tell don the con - he'll rain down hell like he did with solar turbines "messing up" his golf course in Scotland1
Who’s going to be the first to complain that it spoils the view?
If this is real, where’s the article?
The syndicated article in "The Cool Down" derives from an Instagram post by "Engineering Facts"; as people further down have pointed out, it's early days for the plant.
The pic's obviously fake, though: Who'd put a floating barrier across a harbour mouth?
Cudos, but is it heavy storm or hurricane proof?
trump will make up some ridiculous excuse why he hates it
Far less imaginative than the art work above, but at least real. And no, the desalination is not a feature. (Possible that it powers an on shore operation, however). Viva Espana! 🇪🇦
I remember when the United States of America were known for humanitarian efforts and innovation in science and medicine 🤔now, were known for corruption, greed, cruelty and no solutions; spoiled brat problem starters is how we're now seen on the world stage. Embarrassing
#distractorinchief
What's AI Slop trying to do here I wonder?
Sanity...while the United States marches determinedly BACKWARDS towards a whale oil economy!
That’s AI
The image is AI. The story is true: www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/f...
With tRump and his science denials we are falling so far below other countries!
There are scientific solutions for many problems if we cared enough to find them.
Making a good effort but, is desalination sustainable in the long run?
Oh don’t tell Trump . He hates innovative ideas
Don’t worry you lost tRump on reverse osmosis
🤔is the actions of a government actually serving their Country?
Meanwhile in this country we have 30 masked white men cramming themselves into the back of a U-haul
💙💙💙💙💙
WOW! That’s amazing. Why don’t we use that here or anywhere. Thank you Alex.
OMG - where are we? Do we have all of this innovation and information but refuse to use it to benefit oil companies??We could be a leader in all of this. Oil companies could be making the same $$ if they would take this on. Save our planet! Save the critters!
Could they loan it to Puerto Rico or show them how to build their own?
Imagine actually trying to solve problems
If it wasn't for the oil companies, we here in the USⱯ would be much further ahead.
Desalination does affect the ph balance of the sea water in the sea - marine life depends on that natural balance
That is fascinating! Hopefully in 2028 we will have a President who believes in climate change. We could put those gizmos offshore ALL around the United States! 💙If only someone someday comes up with a way to divert excessive rainwater underground from one State to another in need of water. 🤔😉
Remove this lie.. why keep spreading ia lies??
You know, if trump saw that, he'd ask Jared to see if a coal plant could do that.
And America can't read at the forth grade level. So you see why there are no technological leaps in such energy production. And it doesn't help you have an entire industry that feels it can't include energy alternatives cas it would effect their already hideous bloated bottom line. At some point....
The most powerful country in the world has to change its mindset on what success actually is. It's not the number in your bank account, it's the overall benefit to everyone..
Salute!
🤔🤔🤔
But but in the US we’re mining more coal!
So there!
this is the way 🩵
Meanwhile the United States has a floating military Gulag in the Pacific.
AI slop detected
Seems like the digested article could be Sourced from here:
Impact on emissions of the energy system of Gran Canaria due to implementation of a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant - ScienceDirect www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Because water doesn’t need sunlight.
Wow! Everyone is doing more than US
THIS is exactly why I hate AI…what a waste & yet these tech companies are building SI centers that will destroy our communities, air, water & soil…they all should be put on hold until these Corporations figure out how to make them self sustainable & smaller! JFC!
And that certifiably looks like shit. Solar is ugly. It's even more of a crime when we have other ways, better ways to produce energy for humanity.
Is anyone else getting sick and tired of seeing all these bullshit pie-in-the-sky posts about some new world-changing eco-technology, with an obviously AI-generated picture, but without a single citation or an iota of context?
And who are the gullible rubes who keep responding, “Ooh, amazing! 🤩”??
I particularly like how the image-generation algo couldn’t even make hexagons tile correctly. 🙄
Here’s the substantiation: www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/f... The image is AI, however.
This article is premised entirely on an Instagram post that has exactly as much actual context as this BlueSky post: ZERO.
By checking out the article and the insta post, I did get to see two entirely DIFFERENT AI-generated pictures of a thing that doesn’t exist, though.
So there’s that, I guess?
* “article”
checked with Microsoft Copliot: it is not fake
I stand…corrected? 🧐
He checked with ai. If his ai slop post is OK.
Nah. You're still correct. It's fake.
Everybody trying to solve problems aside from the self-professed "greatest country in the world." We invite the end.
yes, I too wish I could solve climate change and a global energy crisis by living in an AI generated fantasy land.
Great idea, but for how long? How sustainable is it to take seawater from the sea? Especially if this expands globally?
Here, this is a related article.
while it does look like something like this is being studied and in the works- no, that is not a real image.
Yeah, it's a real thing, but it's early days: www.ormazabal.com/en-gb/spain-...
that's a link to a "technology demonstration" of floating solar panels in Chile.
It mentions both in the article
love the idea...
I wonder how it does in storms?
As others are saying, this story and image is unfortunately AI.