Smoke Gets In Your Panels

[Riddick]

During the last solar eclipse over the continental United States in 2017, grid operators in California had to make adjustments to the electricity grid to account from the lost solar power during the 90 minutes or so that the eclipse dimmed sunlight in California.

Such is the sensitivity of solar power to clouds and other obstructions such as routine dust, winter snow, and... forest fire smoke. The northeast is learning this right now with solar power generation in parts of the eastern US plummeting by more than 50% amidst the smoke plume blowing down from Canada.



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[Malaria_Kidd II]

Well! Think about that while your home generator is just a dream's wish!

Now the unnatural dimming syndrome originates from those dim wits covering up long cleared farmland that might as well be forests generating 02.


MK II