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Turbines are our friends (media.piefed.social)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How about running water through the back side of the panels to keep them cool, transfer the heat into a heat battery (sand) then us that to assist your hot water heater.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Either that or use it for temperature differential power generation.

    Although I guess you could use the power generated by the panels to run a heat pump to boil the water used for cooling too.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Right on. and PV get's less efficient when it gets hot, I'm unsure if there's enough waste heat to do anything useful. but there is at least a marginally good reason to cool them.

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