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'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night (www.extremetech.com)
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[–] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That 1/100,000 comparison doesn't seem right if these panels generate 1W per square meter as the parent poster said. It sounds like you're saying regular solar panels generate 100kW per square meter but I'm pretty sure that's orders of magnitude too high. Am I misinterpreting what you said?

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    Agreed. It's 1/100 with old panels at 1/300 with modern high performance panels, being up to 300w/m.

    Edit: solar radiation is only 1.3kw/m2

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Edit: solar radiation is only 1.3kw/m2

    Outside earths atmosphere. Only ~650 Watts/m^2 reach the surface of our planet.

    Edit: I posted regurgitating some simplified assumption from a text book or something I must have read in the past, the 650 W/m² is wrong.

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