Re:After many false starts, hydrogen power might now bear fruit
by indigo945 on Sunday July 05, 2020 @06:50AM
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I would suggest that blowing off sand with a strong airstream would scratch the solar panels, further reducing their efficiency. Or maybe there's other problems; in any case, I find it somehow ignorant to assume that nobody in the Pakistani government has ever heard of or considered a blower (or a broom).
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Re:After many false starts, hydrogen power might now bear fruit
by ianai on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:17PM
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I assume they have heard of blowers and probably knew sand would be a problem with this install. My take away is that project was a bad faith effort to serve as a strawman against renewables for oil. This is an engineering problem not a technological problem of solar panels. Having skipped over it implies questionable motivations.