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From a geostationary satellite you have 99.5% uptime over the course of a year, with most days having 24 hours of full power. Unlike ground solar you don't need
by DennisP 3y ago
From a geostationary satellite you have 99.5% uptime over the course of a year, with most days having 24 hours of full power. Unlike ground solar you don't need batteries, long-distance wires, excess capacity, or demand management. Over 24 hours, a panel in orbit collects five times as much energy as it would on the ground.
- Jeff_Brown 3y ago> 99.5% uptime over the course of a year I had no idea geostationary satellites were so far away! (Per Google, 36,000 km -- about 6 times the radius of the Earth.)
- DennisP 3y agoPlus the equator is tilted with respect to the Earth's orbit, so it's only around the equinoxes that a geostationary satellite is shadowed at all.