https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-solar-panels-work
"Every hour, the Earth receives enough sunlight to power all of human
civilization for a year. It arrives silently, from all directions, at no cost.
We've known for decades how to convert this energy into usable electricity at
scale using one of the most abundant elements on Earth.
Today, we still get most of our energy from resources that are gone the moment
you burn them and leave the atmosphere measurably worse on the way out. Some of
the friction is legitimate: a lot of our power infrastructure was built for a
different era with different goals. Some of it is a political environment where
the debate is around whether or not solar energy even works.
The physics has been understood for decades and the cost has fallen faster than
basically any other technology in history. This piece will cover the science,
the economics, and the infrastructure of solar energy."
Via Brad Koehn and Susan ****
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
