Floating solar farms make use of water surfaces that would otherwise go unused. Plus, by shading the water below, floating solar arrays help reduce evaporation – an added bonus in arid regions like this one.
The dual benefit makes this seem like a no-brainer, but I suspect there are some careful considerations needed before floating a high-voltage system on a lake… I wonder how much risk there is from wind.
So this is basically a physical map of the cells and their interconnections. We also know quite a lot about how the individual cells function.
So… if we simulated the behavior of all those cells and connected them as described by this map, and basically just turned it on… would it behave like a fly? Would it respond to stimuli as if it were a fly?
The computer needed for that would probably be the size of a building and eat electricity like candy, but it’d be interesting - the functional brain of a living creature reproduced in software.