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Peter Todd · 1w
https://www.techradar.com/pro/maybe-its-not-science-fiction-solar-panels-are-causing-rainwater-to-fall-in-one-of-the-driest-places-on-earth “The researchers modeled solar panels as nearly black sur...
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95% of the sunlight gets absorbed and the energy gets re-emitted as infrared heat radiation. So that's totally possible.

They also explain that in the article. The infrared heat radiation heats the air more effectively than the sunlight does and causes and updraft.
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ethfi · 1w
Learned something new
frphank · 1w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
frphank · 1w
That's how global warming works too btw.
MrGlass · 1w
Global warming 🤦‍♂️