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Israeli Kibbutz uses Robots To Combat Desert Dust that obscures Solar Panels
The humble chore of cleaning solar panels plays a key role in solar cell efficiency, especially in desert regions where frequent dust storms and lack of rain combine to reduce panel output by up to 35 percent. That same lack of rain also presents a…

Israeli Kibbutz uses Robots To Combat Desert Dust that obscures Solar Panels

Juan Cole 03/26/2014

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Kibbutz Recruits 100 Solar Panel Robots To Combat Desert Dust (via Clean Technica)

The humble chore of cleaning solar panels plays a key role in solar cell efficiency, especially in desert regions where frequent dust storms and lack of rain combine to reduce panel output by up to 35 percent. That same lack of rain also presents a…



 

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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