Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 days agoIt’s great isn’t it. The panels are getting denser as well which must be great for sailors. What sort of boat do you have?
Comment on UK fusion reactor dream gets another £2.5 billion from gov't
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 days agoIt’s great isn’t it. The panels are getting denser as well which must be great for sailors. What sort of boat do you have?
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 2 days ago
25ft narrowboat. If not in UK that is a 7ft wide boat/barge designed for our narrow canal system. My brother and I are both visually impaired so the longer ones are not really doable for us.
We spend the summers travelling the 2000 miles of canal network swapping over ever few weeks. I purchased the panals last year thinking they were as cheap as they were gonna get. But we are leaving the boat home to redo the interia over this and next summer. So they are filling my brother living room ATM. 1.7x1.qm each. So will cover most of the free roof of our little boat.
Honestly it’s a total guess. But the density of new panals is why I think the price has dropped. All the cheap panals are around 20% efficent but we know 25 of higher has been possible for a good while.
My guess is the price of making those has dropped to the point many chinese etc factories are planning to reequip. And they are selling of the glass 20% stuff while folks are looking.
Once 25% is the price these were 2 years ago. Commercial use will likely move over entirely. Can’t imagine the big factories wanting to be stuck on the larger panals then.
But it’s just a guess.