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Re: Re: OT: Electricity generation
Simon Coates wrote:
> Sun's irradiance is 1350 to 1400W/m2 - but that's in space!
> Most of this is infrared - Solar hot water can collect around 1000W/m2
but that's assuming the Sun is directly overhead.
> For PVC it depends on the frequency of light to how much the cell can
capture - and also on the cell's efficacy,
>
Yeah, sorry, I meant specifically for the $1/W solar foil :-) It may
only cost $1/W, but if it was so inefficient that you only got say
1W/m2, you'd need rather a lot of space to generate anything meaningful...!
Jim
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