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To: woodbutcher1963

If you look in my post history you will see I am HUGE nuclear fan, especially fast spectrum reactors and SMR reactors factory built like Henry Ford style.

I know people at Aalo in Austin they are doing sodium cooled modular reactors they are dry cooled to the air they use zero water because sodium runs so much hotter 500-560C than water based tech you can dump heat as 45C air and still trounce 300C to 30C water based cycles.

That far north you want vertical bifacial solar panels. Much more winter output , snow cannot stick to them being vertical and the reflections nearly double the output as well like 60% more

https://x.com/JessePeltan/status/1844102046871666963


47 posted on 05/11/2026 9:59:24 AM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: GenXPolymath

What do you do for employment?

FYI, I am a lumber broker. That means I sell sticks by the truck and rail car load.
I have a degree in Wood Products Engineering. Which is mechanical engineering for wood.


48 posted on 05/11/2026 10:06:45 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: GenXPolymath

Germany has been installing a lot of the bifacial solar panels.
I recently watched a YouTube video comparing output of these panels and whether it was better to orient them facing south or one side east, the other side west.
The answer was facing south and back side north still produced more than E/W.

The arrays that track the sun are still the biggest producers. However, they do require a motor to make sure they track the sun east/west and the proper angle for the sun depending on the time of year.

A buddy has one with twenty panels. It is nearly vertical at 7:30 in the morning(when I pass his house on the way to work). Then it is almost flat at noon on June 21st.

My daughter/son in law have a static free standing array. Oriented due south with a 40 +/- degree slope. The snow slides off of it in the winter. However, his production is primarily in the summer. It is about eight year old.


49 posted on 05/11/2026 10:20:15 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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