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Links please. Specifically for how it's solved for grid scale solar in deserts.
by konjin 6y ago
Links please. Specifically for how it's solved for grid scale solar in deserts.
- j-pb 6y agoMore panels actually brings down the cleaning cost. Build them all in a large strip, side by side. Attach a blower on rails at the top. Done. C'mon this isn't rocket science.
- posix_me_less 6y agoIt is not possible to blow off very fine dust. Liquids are needed.
- j-pb 6y agoI've yet to encounter non organic dust that doesn't get blown away by high pressure air. Even if you had 25% losses after a month as the linked article suggests, cleaning them "well enough" once a week should give you enough efficiency to just add 10% more area and call it a day.
- konjin 6y agoRight, so you just need to add high pressure air instead of a liquid to solar installations. How is this an improvement again?
- j-pb 6y agoHigh pressure air can be produced on-board small autonomous vehicles that travel along the solar installations for weeks at a time, themselves powered by solar energy, without any need to refuel or pick up resources like water.