• Tiuku@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Good point about the evaporation! Yes any energy flowing away along the wires is away from heating the water. Though how significant this is, dunno.

    • Johnnypneumoniac@lemmy.oneOP
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      1 year ago

      They do mention that the water helps cool the solar panels. There’s a math problem here… Solar energy converted by water directly vs with solar panels, etc etc.