今日双语—太阳能电池板未来安置之所

Finding Further Places For Solar Panels太阳能电池板未来安置之所Solar companies are obviously in the business of building solar energy farms. But heres another way the solar developers are spending their money: to protect and relocate desert tortoises, from their sunny desert solar farms. To the tune of at least $60 million dollars.很显然，太阳能公司的职责是修建天阳能农场。但是太阳能开发商还有另外一种耗资的方式：在阳光充足的太阳能农场，保护并安置沙漠龟，这至少要花费 6千万美元。“Its an incredible amount of money to do something that is not necessary.“ Not necessary to the generation of solar energy, that is, says Rebecca Hernandez. Because why not just put your panels elsewhere?“斥资巨额资金，做一些不必要的事情。”Rebecca Hernandez 表示，上述行为对产生太阳能并不必要，为什么不把太阳能板放置到其他位置呢?Hernandez, an earth system scientist and ecologist at UC Davis, says the alternatives to developing on wild lands are many: put photovoltaic panels over rooftops or parking lots; atop salty or contaminated land, unsuitable for farming. Or, why not install float ovoltaics? “A floatovoltaic is a photovoltaic installation that is placed on pontoons that float on the water.“埃尔南德斯是加州大学戴维斯分校的地球系统科学家和生态学家。她表示，在荒地上开发的替代方案有很多:把光伏板放在屋顶或停车场上;放在不适合耕种的咸地或者受污染的土地上。或许也可以安装漂浮的太阳能系统。漂浮的太阳能系统是一种光伏装置，这种装置放置在浮于水面的浮桥上。She and her colleagues identified one and a half million football fields worth of surface area on those types of alternative sites in Californias Central Valley alone. With a combined energy generation potential of 4,300 terawatt-hours per year using the solar panels available on the market today, thats enough to power the entire United States.她和同事们在加州中央谷的其他地方发现了约有 50 万个足球场的面积的地方。利用目前市场上现有的太阳能板，每年共有 4,300 万亿瓦特小时的发电，这足以为整个美国供电。“This paper isnt to say that we think that all energy should be derived from solar energy. Obviously a diverse portfolio of energy sources helps to provide resilience to our energy systems. But really our study demonstrates that we have a lot of untapped potential out there.“研究所得的论文并不是表明我们认为所有的能量都应该来自于太阳能。显然，多样化的能源组合有助于为我们的能源系统提供弹性。但研究表明，我们有很多未开发的潜力。The report is in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.该研究结果发表在环境科学与技术杂志上。Cases exist where it might be too expensive, or too technically complicated to develop on these alternative sites. But if developers take a cue from Hernandez, perhap