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To: Robert A Cook PE

That’s exactly what I’m getting at. Now keep going from there:
You’ve worked it down to 750W/m^2.
At 6 hours a day that’s 188.
An optimistic 20% efficiency harvests 37.
Roughly 1/3 lost to weather conditions and you’re at 24.
Allow for other mundane losses and you’re under 20 watts average.
Then throw in random malfunctions etc.

Hence my “10w/m^2” rule of thumb.


22 posted on 09/24/2019 11:29:04 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: ctdonath2

Good, valid estimates. Thank you,


23 posted on 09/24/2019 12:51:48 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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