Okay, so I'm gonna take this down one by one with very basic knowledge of electrical infrastructure and how solar panels actually work.
Setup A: clearly CGI in the first place, but even if it was real.
A) Flat panels lying straight on the ground is always 100% a terrible idea, they're gonna produce little to no energy, ESPECIALLY in a hilly area where they're covered in shadow half of the day.
B) They're floating in the middle of the river, which means getting energy out of those and into homes would require some huge fuck-off cables IN the river. Energy doesn't just flow out of solar panels magically to your toaster.
C) These are gonna be a common problem with solar panels as a whole, but the amount of pollution this will introduce to the river is crazy. Solar panels are made out of some of the most harmful metal and plastics you can find, them sitting in the river soaking all day will poison them for generations. The local fish are DEAD dead.
D) Likewise, solar panels are a terrible idea when built outside of cities in the first place. You can't reliably store the energy, the power lines lose effectiveness over distance and the batteries to transport said energy are really, REALLY terrible for the planet in production and have a limited life cycle anyway.
E) Maintenance. Oh my GOD, maintenance. Just a few cracks from wear and tear will make them useless AND release more poison into the river. A single hail would WRECK them. They will need constant repairs, which will have to be done by boats which, guess what, use fossil fuels.
At least the panels themselves are angled to better catching the sun. But a huge installation like this is gonna HEAT UP and wreck the wildlife. They will also need maintenance, so it is very likely there will be support structures built around them, so even more of the desert is eaten up.
Hey, do you know what a GREENHOUSE does? Because that's gonna be one big greenhouse and actually driving or riding a train inside will be unbearable. Plus, poor angling, so you're not getting much energy from the panels anyway.
The parking lot idea actually KIND OF works. The panels are at least somewhat angled, so they're gonna catch at least SOME sunlight. It ain't gonna be much and it's gonna be expensive to install, but at least it's something.
Okay, the first one actually somewhat works. It's not producing a lot of energy, but it's enough to make a dent in your energy bill and the panels will justify their own cost in about three years. You're still gonna be relying on power stations for most of the year, especially when it's cloudy. And unless you have a huge fuck-off battery setup, you're not gonna be able to save up the extra energy in the sunny months. Plus maintenance, we've been over this.
The flat one on the side of the building is not going to generate enough energy to justify its own cost, lmao.
Here's what actual solar farms look like:
They are angled to maximize the amount of sun they get and they take up a huge chunk of space, while not even being all that effective.
There's also these things:
That shit in the center is the actual "solar panel" (it's technically not even the same technology, but w/e). The rest are mirrors that capture the maximum amount of sunlight possible at all times. They produce an okay amount of energy, but they WRECK local ecosystems. Birds flying above them get roasted in mid-air.
This is not me defending fossil fuels. There IS an alternative. It's called nuclear energy. But y'all are not ready for this conversation yet.
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