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I've heard countries like the UK and Ireland are excellent for solar. Not in the same way as deserts like Syria and North Africa because the temperatures are mu
by s_dev 10y ago
I've heard countries like the UK and Ireland are excellent for solar. Not in the same way as deserts like Syria and North Africa because the temperatures are much cooler the solar cells can operate more efficiently thus producing more power.
Seemingly under this logic frozen deserts would be excellent solar farm locations.
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- ogrisel 10y ago> thus producing more power more power than if the temperatures were higher in the UK, not more power than if the UK had the solar irradiance and winter daylight times of Sahara. It's still much more efficient to do produce electricity with solar plants in the Sahara. The problem is moving electricity over long distances is both costly and not efficient.