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Originally Posted by Xist
My mother keeps telling me that we do not have more solar panels here in Arizona because it gets too hot, although hopefully it does not get cold enough to severely impair battery life.
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CSP systems thrive in heat. This is, I think, the primary generation paradigm used by those giant solar installations in Spain. Except for the mirrors and collectors, the generation end is completely familiar territory. Take a regular thermal generation engineer out of his coal-burning power plant and drop him into the hot end of a solar thermal power plant, he will recognize everything.