• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Right, but that visible ball isn’t reliable. You have no idea when it’s going to work or not.

    If anyone cares, sunset is at 9:04 PM today.

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      2 hours ago

      It works all the fucking time. The sun doesn’t turn off. You attach batteries to the solar panels that way if there are clouds you can just use what’s in the batteries and if it’s a sunny day and you don’t need the extra energy you store it in the batteries until you do. And if it’s really cloudy in your area… Get a windmill.

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        1 hour ago

        That was the joke. We know precisely down to the second when the sun will be shining. We’ve been able to calculate that for over a century at this point.

        “Oh, what about storms and clouds!?!”

        Let me introduce those naysayers to the national energy grids. My house can get electricty from a producer thousands of miles away, so even if clouds are covering my whole state, we’re still getting power from sunny areas.