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minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·30 days agoNow I might be talking shit, but isn’t there a problem with dust on the moon that means solar panels wouldn’t work very well? Though I may be thinking of Mars. Or something else. Uranus?
minus-squarePissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·30 days agoThere is no wind in the vacuum of space.
minus-squareTheOakTree@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·30 days agoPro: nothing’s ever gonna kick dust on your panels except space debris or ourselves. Con: nothing’s ever gonna wipe dust off our panels.
minus-squareMidnight Wolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·30 days agoengages windshield wipers
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·30 days agoYeah it was Mars that I was thinking about, not the Moon.
minus-squareMidnight Wolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·30 days agoVacuum… everywhere? Dyson furiously trying to replicate this phenomenon for their next vacuum
Now I might be talking shit, but isn’t there a problem with dust on the moon that means solar panels wouldn’t work very well? Though I may be thinking of Mars. Or something else. Uranus?
There is no wind in the vacuum of space.
Pro: nothing’s ever gonna kick dust on your panels except space debris or ourselves.
Con: nothing’s ever gonna wipe dust off our panels.
engages windshield wipers
Yeah it was Mars that I was thinking about, not the Moon.
Vacuum… everywhere?
Dyson furiously trying to replicate this phenomenon for their next vacuum