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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 60 points 5 months ago

Meaning solar energy produces 30 gigawats per 2 minutes?

Not bad, should build even more.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 29 points 5 months ago

And that's just a narrow stretch of the country that received the solar eclipse!

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

in the path of the eclipse

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

He may be counting the 1 kW per square metre of sunlight that reaches the ground, not just the fraction we turn to electricity

[-] lurker2718 1 points 5 months ago

When there is only 50% totality, photovoltaic also makes 50% less. You just do not notice it when looking around, because your eyes adjust to the changed brightness. So a photovoltaic produces less for a longer time. What I found, for the 2017 eclipse, was that around 16GW were impacted with at most a reduction of 5GW in one moment.

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