Right, when it comes to the ocean you also have to remember that hundreds of full containers a year are just swept off of a ship and lost. Floating panels would be outright annihilated in rough seas, and a system to stow them would add a fair amount of complexity.
And again, all of this is overshadowed by the fact that there's enough open unused space on land to power the entire planet with solar by multiple orders of magnitude. You could power 100 earths with ground-based solar and still have room left over.
And again, all of this is overshadowed by the fact that there's enough open unused space on land to power the entire planet with solar by multiple orders of magnitude. You could power 100 earths with ground-based solar and still have room left over.