I am standing in the middle of a floating. Solar. Far, far, far. The largest floating farm in Southeast Asia. Yes, solar panels can float on water. You have never seen anything like this because they just completed. Today. It's just so cool. First time in my life I didn't know these things existed. Where is this? Why do we need solar panels on top of water? And isn't it easier to build on land? I am now in Indonesia, a country with over 17,000 islands that needs clean energy today. But in this part of the world there is not a lot of wind, so it's very hard to build a wind farm. And there is not a lot of flat land. Most of it is used for agriculture. So how do you make clean energy in countries like this? Well, this is how. These guys from Mustar designed and built a new type of solar farm that can float on top of water without sinking. This solar panel is much stronger than a regular one. It can move with the waves. Then they found a reservoir in Indonesia and covered it with thousands of solar panels. By the way, there is more than 350,000 of these on top. Water. This is as big as 14 football fields. Now, the sun does not evaporate the water in the reservoir. Instead it gets captured by the solar panel. So we save water and generate power at the same time. These solar panels do not move away because they're connected to the bottom of the the lake bed, correct? And the bottom of the lake bed is 100 meters. 200 meters. That's like really deep. That's very deep. This was a lot of hard work by people who believe in the future of clean energy must are in the UAE and the local Indonesian government. Just from this farm alone, Indonesia can now power 50,000 homes with 0 carbon emissions. This is a beautiful thing to look at and I wonder why we didn't have more of this This, this project makes power hand, it gives power. 2 locals. 1400 people got jobs in the nearby town. Schools were built, mosques were created just for this solar farm. It's a win win. Win for the planet, less pollution. Win for the people, cheaper electricity. Win for the town. Win. For the country of Indonesia, nobody loses. It's like a win, win, win, win, win, win. Everybody benefits. The truth is we need more projects like this, this. And these guys from Mustar are pioneering to make it happen in Middle East, Asia and the world because we all need clean energy today.
