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Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That's funny, but modern solar panel power plants don't care that it's winter. The panels rotate and an arid area isn't getting that much more cloud cover.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

The article says the ones it talks about do. Also, rotating panels can't stop days from being shorter during winter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not saying it's not lower. I'm saying it's not nearly as big of a deal as people say it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

So what are you saying exactly? With what issue would using hydrogen help?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm just talking about winter vs summer capacity in desert solar installations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Night? Longer periods of cloudy days or storms?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

So we are not using it for cars, but to make electricity at night? Just even less efficiently than hydro pumped power? Ok...