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Old 03-17-2022, 04:28 AM   #98 (permalink)
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Billions of gallons of water are used per year cleaning off solar panels.
A nanometer scale coating of titanium dioxide would make the panels oleophobic:
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Nano titanium dioxide for coating (Nano TiO2), oleophilic ...
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Anyways I dropped in to post his:



50W/sq meter from capturing the triboelectric charge; about a third the output of a square meter of photovoltaic solar.
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