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Peak electricity demand is now right after sunset (the duck curve) so getting a few more hours out of a solar plant would really help.
by wmf 2y ago
Peak electricity demand is now right after sunset (the duck curve) so getting a few more hours out of a solar plant would really help.
- uberman 2y agoOut of a plant sure. How big is the mirror? The size of a solar farm? I would doubt it. The light will be either too diffuse or too small to be of any value on the scale of a solar farm. Someone in a different post says the illuminated patch will be 4km across and if the mirror is somehow the size of a football field that will result in 0.03% of intensity of daylight. So about 10x brighter than the moon. So we are potentially in the ballpark of a year of nightly reflected light to get a single days worth of sun for a 4km wide solar farm. Assuming the mirrors are actually the size of football fields. For context that would make the mirrors 38x the size of the solar arrays that power the space station.