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Old 06-26-2017, 02:01 AM   #241 (permalink)
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The rain just keeps the panels clean. It's the overcast. An overcast gets 5-50% of the sunlight to the ground. Then there's the aerosols, they act different to the white clouds.

Effect of cloud-scattered sunlight on Earth's energy balance depends on wavelength of light

 
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