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I've never heard of this 'load balancing' being a thing. You can get totally sunburned on an exposed spot. Or do you mean in terms of vitamin D generation?
by GekkePrutser 4y ago
I've never heard of this 'load balancing' being a thing. You can get totally sunburned on an exposed spot. Or do you mean in terms of vitamin D generation?
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoI think the point is that you can get the same vitamin D dose from a gentle exposure of a lot of skin, or a massive and damaging over-exposure of a small part of your skin, or a spectrum in between. The same general idea that you could light a room with a single LED die overdriven to thermal death in minutes, or many adequately-cooled underdriven ones virtually indefinitely. Or maybe more similarly, cooking with a 10kW cutting laser rather than an electric stovetop would make a huge mess of your cookware.
- devmunchies 4y agoexactly. One solar panel pummeled in the sun for 6 hours vs 6 solar panels in the sun for only one hour. Similar amount of energy absorbed.