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Are floating solar farms the future of clean energy? – BBC News
Over the past two years, energy prices have soared to record levels across Europe, leading to renewed efforts to harness renewable resources.
Portugal has turned its sights to solar power – and the country is now home to Europe’s largest floating solar farm.
Located on a reservoir in southern Portugal, the farm is the size of five football pitches and is made up of 12,000 photovoltaic panels.
It generates enough energy to power 15,000 homes in the local area.
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The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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Explosions have been heard near two Iranian port cities, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, state media has reported.
It comes after another night of strikes between the US and Iran, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it hit two UAE tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and targeted US facilities in Jordan and Bahrain.
The UAE called the attack “brazen”, adding that an Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured.
Meanwhile, the US military says it completed strikes on targets aimed at degrading “Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping” – Iranian state media reports three people were killed.
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The US military said it was carrying out a new wave of strikes on targets in Iran. It said the aim of the attacks was to degrade Iran’s ability to attack shipping in the strait of Hormuz. It came ass the US Navy resumed its blockade of Iran’s ports.
Iran said that control of the strait of Hormuz was required for its national security and it will exercise sovereignty over the key shipping lane, whatever the cost.
President Trump announced that he was scrapping a plan he had announced a day earlier, for placing a 20% toll or tariff on all cargos passing through the strait of Hormuz.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.
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@davidwillis5016
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Thanks
@ericliu5491
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Floating PV solar farms will block out sunlight that photosynthetic aquatic organisms need. This will result in less CO2 being removed by the water body and less food for fish.
@pixotass
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
I'm Portuguese but this guy's English (red jacket) is terrible 😂
@cryptosaffa3869
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
"It’s becoming clear that there will be no transition to clean energy (whatever that means) by 2030." – Capex Insider
@zonakthelivestation8268
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
The upcoming dream project
@mehtacotute
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
"Artificial intelligence on when is the best time to do this cleanup" How about at night?
@different3187
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
😂
@anhnamria9870
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
https://youtu.be/FA_uWlRHC3k
@zxcvmnb1276
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
can you please modify the volume of your content's audio, increase it and make it louder 🥺 my phone has low volume and i have no earphones or external speakers. pls make it louder 🥺🥺
@alexanderadavar6439
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Place gaps in between the solar panels to allow light through, so that you do not harm the wildlife beneath
@richardharkness9427
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Tidal turbines are the answer. Not floating solar. The tides never stop whereas the sun doesn't always shine. Expenditure on this scale has to be put to good use.
@mehtaverse
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Setting aside the topic of the video, I just want to add that this is my 1st time seeing a field reporter who is visibly disabled. I've never seen anything like that before and I'm pleasantly surprised. I would like to see more of this!
@eclecticaro
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Let's have 5 yo kids in Africa digging Cobalt with their bear hands and after 10 years have these panels dumped back in Africa because they can never be recycled. Let's turn Africa into the biggest scrap yard in history so that we can have new iPhones every year. Let's buy Electric Vehicles that that connot be repaired even after small crash because they are fire bombs. Let's extinguish those fires for half a day, using 4000 litres of water – enough to shower for 73 days. The EVs, lithium batteries and solar panels are the Biggest Con World has ever seen.. and it had seen a lot.
@TheAlexwilhelm
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Should have mentioned the concerns about blocking out all of the light underneath, panels might potentially need to be spaced out more in the future.
@TheAlexwilhelm
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
3:48 when he tried to hand it to him 😣
@ThamMayapun-dh4ik
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Wow it's very Exccelent idea😮
@b.l.o.c.k.6648
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
I like this guy👍thank you
@davidpak271
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
No, it blocks sunlight reaching the water lol…
@reallifeofanimals1
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Wow it is the best technology in future. The world 🌎, don’t say no power, and electric ⚡️ for use…
@shamrock141
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Personally I don't think this is the way to go. The maintenance costs, difficulty of access and local environmental damage may outweigh any benefits of placing a solar panel on water instead of land
@vincentjacobsson3981
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
I think it should be investigated in the past and present in terms of political impartiality and credibility whether BBC News was informed and deliberately withheld from the people the now-known state structures.
@morleshanmugam4295
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Tun Mahathir and Malaysian government sale drugs. My NATO salary not paid yet. Letter from Singapore,NATO and Thailand not received yet. Malaysia and muslim country looking for war. I don't like war. One man in half for clean this shit. I do want war until world declare Muslim 100% terriost.
@zombiebullshark3834
December 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
They should hire a person with a falcon. Bringing one to an airport made the birds leave for months and the falcon was only there for a day