muh fossil fuels 
The falling cost of renewable energy, though, means that many countries, particularly poorer ones, have a strong incentive to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.
According to Ember’s report, the falling costs of energy produced by Chinese-made wind and solar installations have allowed countries like Mexico, Bangladesh and Malaysia to race past the United States in recent years in terms of using renewably produced electricity (rather than fossil fuels) in everyday activities like heating and cooling buildings or powering vehicles.
Across Africa, solar panel imports from China rose 60 percent in the last 12 months, and 20 African countries imported a record amount over that period, Ember said in a separate study recently.
American companies, who do not make solar panels or wind turbines at anywhere near the scale of Chinese ones, are at a major disadvantage. Chinese companies now supply 80 percent of solar panels and 60 percent of wind turbines worldwide, Ember said.
China has pushed for dominance in renewable energy partly for economic reasons and also to protect its national security by limiting its reliance on oil imports. But the implications for the planet’s health could scarcely be greater. Scientific consensus has long been that a sharp decline in fossil fuel use is the surest way to lessen the pace of climate change.
I know solar panels can be installed over canals so that shade from the solar panel slows evaporation and the evaporation keeps the panels cool, improving efficiency. I've never heard of this done over larger ponds of water but surely the same principle applies.
The US has so many damn parking lots, imagine them generating electricity and shade for the cars beneath.
Solar panels can also be installed over some types of crop fields, for a "trampoline effect", which benefits the plants while generating electricity. Which is also really cool and an efficient use of land.
Renewable energy is so fucking cool.
Nice,
CW non vegan
Perhaps even grow prawns/shrimps too