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200W/m^2 is what it says at the end right? Regardless, the tech will improve and get cheaper and this will be a nice sell for countries with less sun. Maybe eve
by kevinlinxc 3y ago
200W/m^2 is what it says at the end right? Regardless, the tech will improve and get cheaper and this will be a nice sell for countries with less sun. Maybe eventually we could get hybrid panels powers by Sun or rain?
- angry_moose 3y agoThen their math is off by nearly 4 orders of magnitude somewhere (see other comments in the the thread). "Technology improvements" can't get around the fundamental limit in the amount of energy available to harvest. Edit: Oh, that's horribly misleading. They seem to be reporting the theoretical maximum output of this harvesting technology - e.g., how much energy could be recovered if they started blasting the panel with a firehose. The amount available in rain is on the order of .2-.4 W/m^2. At that rate you'd never recover the amount of energy as was used to produce the panel.
- jacquesm 3y ago200 mW at best... seriously, this is bunk.