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For those curious what the 385% refers to > the team’s demonstration device can achieve an overall efficiency of 385 percent in converting the energy of sunlight into the energy of water evaporation. Honestly I still don't know what that means, or how efficiency can be over 100%.
7 litres per m^2 per hour.
For those curious what the 385% refers to > the team’s demonstration device can achieve an overall efficiency of 385 percent in converting the energy of sunlight into the energy of water evaporation. Honestly I still don't know what that means, or how efficiency can be over 100%.
I guess water evaporates naturally, adding sunlight speed up the process.
This device "could" produce 1.5 gallons per day, per square metre of solar collecting area. The researchers estimate a system suitable for a family might be built for $100, so double or triple that after profits etc. I assume that the 1.5 gallons was the highest yield they would have had from a single day, had they had a 1 square metre solar panel, and the expected average yield would be less (accounting for cloud co…
> 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter 7 litres per m^2 per hour.
For those curious what the 385% refers to > the team’s demonstration device can achieve an overall efficiency of 385 percent in converting the energy of sunlight into the energy of water evaporation. Honestly I still don't know what that means, or how efficiency can be over 100%.
For those curious what the 385% refers to > the team’s demonstration device can achieve an overall efficiency of 385 percent in converting the energy of sunlight into the energy of water evaporation. Honestly I still don't know what that means, or how efficiency can be over 100%.