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>Tall skyscrapers can hold significantly more people on a small footprint, so why not apply that thinking to solar panels as well? This is not a good analogy a
by constantcrying 1y ago
>Tall skyscrapers can hold significantly more people on a small footprint, so why not apply that thinking to solar panels as well?
This is not a good analogy and seems to misunderstand the purpose of the arrangement.
- jqpabc123 1y agoMore kwh on a small footprint?
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- BobaFloutist 11mo agoSo, people take up volume, which is a cubic function, whereas solar panels take up surface area, which is a square function. But on top of that, though they might kvetch, people can be in a shadow and still be reasonably in a dwelling. If you started making a field of solar towers, they'd start casting shade on each other and reduce the efficiency. Which isn't to say that there would be zero marginal additional kwh/sqft, but that you'd get dramatically diminishing returns the less you spaced out the towers, which I think happens slower for people.
- mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago+1 for kvetch