I believe every inch of area under a solar panel or accumulator to be covered is necessary if you want to tile the array because substations only connect at their coverage boundaries.
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It has a space efficiency space taken up by panels and accumulators of 0 9898.
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Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
It also contains the.
The optimal ratio is 0 84 21 25 accumulators per solar panel and 23 8 solar panels per megawatt required by your factory this ratio accounts for solar panels needed to charge the accumulators this means that you need 1 428 mw of production of solar panels and 100mj of storage to provide 1 mw of power over one day night cycle.
It is a seamless connection to the next part.
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However i sort of concede that it is possible however the alignment of solar panels in the manor you suggest would actually waste more space than gained.
It has the nearly optimal ratio.
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14 substations 373 accumulators and 444 solar panels.
The combination of solar panels and accumulator will fully use the grid.
Here s what it looks like and here s what an array of 32 of them look like together.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
I m very new here and i just discovered that you only need a few solar panels to fully charge a huge network of accumulators.
Very close to the ideal of 0 84.
So almost 99 and an accumulator to solar panel ratio of 0 84009.
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Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
The solar panels pull in enough power during one day to easily charge my accumulators with 8 9gj which is more than enough to fully run all aspects of my base even when it is operating at maximum capacity in both production and purple science research day and night.
As you can see i.