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Re:Scientists invent double-sided solar panel that generates... by spywaregorilla on Monday July 24, 2023 @04:22PM (#36853699)
Adult male height mean is 70 inches. Standard deviation is 3 inches. A 20% increase is 4.67 standard deviations above the mean, which is sensibly describable as a vast improvement in terms of human height. But your statement about "vast" for height is only true because of the particular distribution. It doesn't generalize.
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Re:Scientists invent double-sided solar panel that generates... by wnevets on Monday July 24, 2023 @04:25PM (#36853724)
> Adult male height mean is 70 inches. Standard deviation is 3 inches.

If I was 20% taller I would be well over 7ft tall.

> because of the particular distribution. It doesn't generalize.

and IMO it fits solar electricity production increases.

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Re:Scientists invent double-sided solar panel that generates... by spywaregorilla on Monday July 24, 2023 @04:34PM (#36853822)
> If I was 20% taller I would be well over 7ft tall.

ok?

> and IMO it fits solar electricity production increases.

I think it's distracting more than anything. We can, at best, debate whether the distribution of power generation is similar to the distribution of height to get any usefulness of out of this.

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Re:Scientists invent double-sided solar panel that generates... by wnevets on Monday July 24, 2023 @04:41PM (#36853912)
> debate whether the distribution of power generation is similar to the distribution of height to get any usefulness of out of this.

and IMO they are, thus my original comment.

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