[Its.an.education.project] Energy alternatives (comes from ''Ivan's latest blog entry on OLPC'')

[Chris Leonard]

This site may have useful data on solar potential with finer
granularity/resoultion.

http://www.gaisma.com/en/dir/pe-country.html

They claim to derive their data from here:  http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/

The term you need to search on is "insolation" (more-or-less a measure
of solar energy potential). The map linked in the earlier message is found
reused by many solar sites, but has limited utility given it's low rez.

cjl

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the solar maps that have been indicated just show the "what should be"
situation according to the place that the countries have in the globe.

Peru has a different climate (we should be an almost equatorial country!
full of sun!) due to the Humboldt current and the presence of the 2nd
highest chain of mountains in the word: the Andes Mountain Chain.

Regards,

Javier Rodriguez
Lima, Peru

Edward Cherlin wrote:
>* On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:22 AM,  <forster at ozonline.com.au<http://lists.lo-res.org/mailman/listinfo/its.an.education.project>>
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*>>>* In Peru, my country, there is rain 5 months by year, totally cloudy,
day
*>>>* after day.  Just 2 or 3 hours with some sun.  So, according to the
*>>>* manufacturers, all solar panels can just provide from 5% to 20% of its
*>>>* normal capacity (normal capacity is got in a full sunny day).
*>>>*
*>>* See http://www.oksolar.com/abctech/solar-radiation.htm
*>>* Peru doesnt look too bad in its worst month
*>>*
*>*
*>* It's suggestive, but we need to see the methodology and the source
*>* data. It's too easy to mislead with pictures of statistics.
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