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@waltercool
Not sure what they mean by "Europe's solar industry is starting to buckle", but solar panels do have inherent flaws relating to "too much such", the main being that as they heat up, they're less efficient. And since sunlight usually heats up anything that is even slightly dark... yes, "too much sun for solar panels" is a sentence that makes perfect sense, and is not clown world territory.
@meowski @waltercool
Define "handle". There's currently no foto-voltaic solar panel tech out there that doesn't lose a good amount of efficiency after the first few hours of usage. And the decrease of efficiency due to heat is no psyop, is a real issue and limitation of current tech.
Sure, they "handle" full sun, but doesn't mean they actually have full efficiency. Kinda like a wind farm handles storm winds, except you need to put the breaks on it, cause otherwise it tears itself apart, so it can't actually generate energy at 100% of what should have been its optimal efficiency.
@meowski @waltercool
And the heat efficiency loss is also a well known problem. And all of these are known symptoms of how well the current foto-voltaic solar panels "handle" full sun. Which is, meh. Solve the initial significant loss of efficiency and the heat efficiency problem, and I'll be impressed.
I didn't even bring up the slow tapering off, and I don't ask for it to be solved, cause something like that is to be expected. Things wear off when exposed to the elements. I'm ok with that. I'm not ok with things wearing off suddenly in a few hours, and I'm not ok with my green energy sources needing an air conditioning unit to work at peak efficiency.
>initial significant loss of efficiency
it's like 3%. it's some quantum effect i think. they don't know why it happens
