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Solar Eclipse effect on solar energy

EdTheHeaterMan
EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 9,401
in Solar
Do we need to make allowances for the solar panel down time during total Eclipse?

Edward Young Retired

After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?

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  • Hot_water_fan
    Hot_water_fan Member Posts: 2,040
    https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61743 check it out!
    EdTheHeaterMan
  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 9,401
    I am so happy that our government is looking out for us.
    I was afraid that my Tesla might just die on the highway at two o'clock and I would be stranded.
    Thanks @Hot_water_fan

    Edward Young Retired

    After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?

  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,495
    Buffer tank to carry you through the darkness.

    People around here around here are freaking out.

    Food stores jammed yesterday.

    Anyone else seeing that?

    I am sure the average house at the worst case has enough canned soup, tuna fish and peanut butter to survive.
  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 9,401
    edited April 8
    I noticed this same phenomenon @EBEBRATT-Ed just before snow storms and hurricanes. Everyone rushed to the store to buy up all the bread, milk and eggs. I call this the French Toast Effect.

    Edward Young Retired

    After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?

  • GGross
    GGross Member Posts: 1,295
    EdTheHeaterMan said:

    I noticed this same phenomenon @EBEBRATT-Ed just before snow storms and hurricanes. Everyone rushed to the store to buy up all the bread, milk and eggs. I call this the French Toast Effect.

    If it gets dark for 4 minutes then when the sun comes back out its morning again, so we need the extra supplies to make afternoon french toast for second breakfast
    STEAM DOCTOREdTheHeaterMan
  • Intplm.
    Intplm. Member Posts: 2,200
    Was a kid in New England in nineteen seventy when the last eclipse came close.
    As a kid you can pick up on nonsense from people. I don't remember any of that going on back then.
    Come to think of it, I didn't experience any of it, this fifty years later. My Tesla runs fine.
    EdTheHeaterManGGross

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