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This is awesome, nice work! In case it's useful, I made a Python package for calculating solar irradiance at altitude: https://github.com/gusgordon/airmass http
by gusgordon 2y ago
This is awesome, nice work! In case it's useful, I made a Python package for calculating solar irradiance at altitude: https://github.com/gusgordon/airmass https://github.com/gusgordon/airmass
Takes into account lots of stuff (e.g. attenuation from air, ozone, and water vapor) with the goal of estimating solar power at any altitude/latitude/day/time.
- tndl 2y agoVery cool! Are you working on some kind of airborne solar platform?
- gusgordon 2y agoI was doing some analysis of a solar-electric plane that can fly indefinitely: https://github.com/gusgordon/atmospheric_satellite https://github.com/gusgordon/atmospheric_satellite Seems feasible, never went past the analysis phase though :)