On 09/06/13 08:57, polygonum wrote:
On 09/06/2013 08:50, harry wrote:
Oh, we have an expert here that doesn't own any?
Output is reduced in overcast conditions not zero.

We need as many different renewable technologies as possible to
overlap.

What happens to output during and after a sandstorm?

Or when the builders next door are shovelling cement in large quantities
and it ends up setting as a nice thick film on the panels

As happened to my FILS solar panels...



(For those who think we do not get them in the UK, look north, far
north, recently.)

Overlap of technologies is pretty much irrelevant if the source is the
same. Both PV and thermal solar stop working when there is no sun
despite being very different technologies.

harry is talking usual hand wavy airy-fairy ********.

There is no benefit in diversity of technology whatsoever.
There is some benefit in diversity of location.

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