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Re:A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on... by avip on Friday December 09, 2022 @05:46PM (#33927431)
(Modern utility scale PV installations are already using automated cleaning solutions).

It is much better from POV of the cleaning robot maneuvering requirements. It's also much better in terms of single robot can access the entire installation.

But it's worse in terms of how much distance the dust should be pushed before it's off panel (as I don't see any gaps there)

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Re:A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on... by jacoblambda on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:32PM (#33928849)
Alternatively if the robot is a vacuum or something of the like, it could just store the excess dust and dump it at a station on the edge.
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