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Yeah. The temperature issue would have been my first guess. Regarding concentrating solar: are people still trying to make that work for commercial generation?
by LamaOfRuin 1y ago
Yeah. The temperature issue would have been my first guess.
Regarding concentrating solar: are people still trying to make that work for commercial generation? I thought this had generally failed to pan out for electricity generation.
- rcxdude 1y agoConcentrated PV is pretty dead, the cost and complexity of the tracking is not at all worth it for the theoretical increase in efficiency.
- hinkley 1y agoThe latest discoveries with double sided panels really puts the last nail in that coffin I believe. There are still plants out there, but I don’t know how many are still operating versus being decommissioned.
- hinkley 1y agoThere are many variations of concentrating solar. There’s the tower, there’s the curved mirror with the tube of oil, and there’s the magnifying glass with a small, exotic solar cell that can handle 10 Suns’ worth of light. None of them work on overcast days because they rely on parallel rays of light.