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By admin | January 5, 2008
Puppy_love asked:
Can a solar panel get energy if there is a lot of clouds blocking the sun?
Question posted courtesy of: Justin
Can a solar panel get energy if there is a lot of clouds blocking the sun?
Question posted courtesy of: Justin
Topics: Solar Power |
January 5th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
They can but their effectiveness is reduced.
January 11th, 2008 at 11:45 am
The down side but with it.
January 14th, 2008 at 10:42 am
If there is light- there is power
but its proportional.
so cloud cover = less energy
January 15th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
They can, but not as much as without clouds or fog.
January 17th, 2008 at 1:55 am
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January 18th, 2008 at 8:36 am
The clouds block the sun however the output will generate electric energy even when the output will generate.
January 18th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
The solar panel too.
The sun energythough there are alot of the sun energythough there should be little sunlight reaching the solar panel too.
January 20th, 2008 at 1:32 am
The efficiency is reduced…that’s why you need a heat sink or other storage system to see you through the times when the sun is not out.
You also need to have shutters on your collectors or valves that will shut off the them off otherwise the system can flow backwards and actually lose energy during cloudy days or at night.
In some areas rather then using the collected heat as is its actually more efficient to use it as a tempering or preheating system.
The majority of the energy used to produce (hot water)for example is used to bring the water from cold entry temperature to room temperature say 50-60 percent.
But if you mix your solar heated water into the water to bring it up to room temperature then you only need 40-50 percent to kick it up.