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Default Solar power calculations, please help!

On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 22:38:50 UTC+1, David Paste wrote:
Thanks all for the replies.

The amount oelectricity available seems dismally small.

How would simply harvesting the photons to heat water and running a stirling engine compare?


Solar steam is much more efficient than PV.


NT