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Floating solar panels are beginning to boom in the US after rapid growth in Asia. They're attractive not just for their clean power and lack of a land footprint, but because they also conserve water by preventing evaporation. (May 10) (AP Video: Haven Daley and Laura Bargfeld)       

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