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

[Walter Bender]

There is a table at the bottom of the page that includes "coverage". I
assume this is cloud coverage? Surely these data would be useful as a
rough guide to expected efficiency.

-walter

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:45 PM, info at olpc-peru.info
<info at olpc-peru.info> wrote:
> 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> wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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