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I'd like this to be true, but that's some industrial grade BS sprinkled in that press release: > The unit requires about 10% of the space required by solar pan
by c2h5oh 4y ago
I'd like this to be true, but that's some industrial grade BS sprinkled in that press release:
> The unit requires about 10% of the space required by solar panels and generates round-the-clock energy.
Let's be generous here and use numbers for my area, which further north than all of US excluding Alaska. I can get just over 200W of electricity per m^2 from solar (peak) with standard ~20% efficient panels here and 200kWh per year.
So with this I should be getting 2MWh per m^2 per year with an average power output of almost 230W and much higher peak as it is generally much more windy during the day.
So 1m^2 footprint of this device would match performance of standard 3.5-4m diameter wind turbine (9.6-12.5 m^2) assuming a sane if slightly optimistic average annual wind speed of 4m/s.
I find that super hard to believe.