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Night, sure. Doesn't work in winter though. (Not that that means we should stop building solar - we're still far from the point where it wouldn't make sense to
by IshKebab 1y ago
Night, sure. Doesn't work in winter though. (Not that that means we should stop building solar - we're still far from the point where it wouldn't make sense to build any more solar because we can't store the energy.)
- gpm 1y agoIf you're bordering on the article circle, yes. Otherwise you just have to overbuild a bit more.
- IshKebab 1y agoI live in the UK. The ratio between solar output on a typically sunny summer day and a typical cloudy winter day is about 20. So your "a bit" is doing a hell of a lot of work there.
- nasmorn 1y agoGlobally seen the Uk is close to the arctic circle. It is one of the worst cases
- IshKebab 1y agoRight but it's not exactly the latitude that's the issue. On sunny days in winter I get plenty of power. The issue is the weather - only about 1/3 of the days in winter are sunny.
- gpm 1y agoYeah, my comment was a simplification - like most things trying to describe local effects globally are. The UK doubles as unusually cloudy weather and relatively short days.