Post #3250959
2023-03-04 21:17 UTC
@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca The article says "Water evaporation from the plants even helped to cool the panels and increase electricity output."
The original study it refers to is paywalled but I have access via work. The abstract mentions "reduced PV panel heat stress" and the full-text goes into more details.
@kellogh@hachyderm.io
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@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca 2023-03-04 22:12
@zeborah@mastodon.nz @kellogh@hachyderm.io Thanks for sharing that! 8.9C of cooling is impressive, although in the long run the annual increase in generation is marginal. In the end I think we’ll see lots more of this kind of thing precisely because there are lots of advantages that run in many different directions.
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@kellogh@hachyderm.io 2023-03-05 10:47
@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca @zeborah@mastodon.nz and you didn’t upload it to sci-hub, shame shame