• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Hmm, I talked with grid solar people who’ve been using this for a while about a year ago. Maybe this is a new version? Anyway, they were saying that it really helps in the winter when you can harvest the reflected light from the snow. But doesn’t do a ton usually.

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      1 year ago

      If it helps with snow, white paint or light coloured concrete should work fine too. No?

      As the planet warms, we’ll increasingly need to paint flat roofs white anyway.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, but the people I was taking to worked in grid scale rather than utility scale, so in fields rather than buildings. You’d want to avoid paving over the whole field for cost, but also avoiding huge runoff. They are often also renting the fields for 20 to 30 years rather than buying them outright, so paving over the whole thing wouldn’t be appreciated.