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		bryanlarsen 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery I didn't just think that, I read it in a news article about a study. My memory of what I read may be faulty, though. Besides fewer sunlight hours, Finland also has lots of clouds and very steep sun angles which significantly affects production.

fulafel 6 months ago [–]

The cloudiness is accounted for in the visualization, otherwise you wouldn't see that much variation on the same latitudes. But yep the sun angle affects things too like I mentioned.

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