• Aniki@feddit.org
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    While there power per panel surface is lower, the timing of peak outputs is an excellent complement to standard solar. It has maximum output in the morning and evenings, when people want to run home appliances etc, rather than at midday when they are all at work.

    yeah i’m well aware of that. the problem is more that you can more effectively shift power around from midday to evening and morning with batteries.

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      Generation on demand is still a better. Batteries are still quite an expensive option, at the scale required.

      It also ignores the other benefits. The main one is allowing a combination of agriculture and power generation.