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Except for cleaning the panels?
by kardos 7y ago
Except for cleaning the panels?
- KirinDave 7y agoModern panels are wired so that they're not quite so devastated by having an edge of the panel occluded. You can observe this with newer folding panels as well; they're often wired such that only a half or quarter of the panel being exposed leads to a linear reduction in output as opposed to a catastrophic failure. Besides, it's not like farming is human-labor free. It's certainly comparable human labor to imagine keeping solar panels relatively dust free compared to growing strawberries.
- kardos 7y agoI guess I meant that cleaning the panels uses clean water. Unless someone has a good way to get the dust off without using water.
- KirinDave 7y agoYou can clean them with electrostatic force. Also, you can jut flip the panel over. You definitely don't need to use water regularly and you certainly don't need it to be anything but within a reasonable PH.
- iso1337 7y agoIt would use far less water than crops.
- im3w1l 7y agoMaybe blowing air would work.
- baroffoos 7y agoEspecially if you do it regularly so the dust blows off before it gets stuck.
- WalterBright 7y agoI discovered that compressed air works great for cleaning my car interior. Have to be careful to hold your breath, though, don't want to breath in the gunk.
- tacticus 7y agoThe place i've been to used compressed air for most of the time. reducing the frequency of water washes