Last Flight Out

Re:Last Flight Out by Schroedingersat on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:14AM (#34816621)

Annual DNI or GTI at the south pole is surprisingly high. About 5-6kWh/m^2 which is pretty close to somewhere like california or western Australia.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334411420_Estimatio...

GHI is quite low (your array needs to be very spread out) and seasonality is 1/0, but if seasonal storage were available then a solar array in antarctica is fine.

Mars GHI is about 550W/m^2, but there are no clouds. An array there would perform about as well as france or spain.

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Re:Last Flight Out by AceJohnny2 on Friday February 17, 2023 @07:33PM (#34842584)

Thanks so much! I've been looking for this sort of information for years! (and didn't have the competence to calculate myself)

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