You have a couple of options at your disposal early on in surviving mars for generating power.
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Protected from dust while turned off.
Now let s look at the power outputs.
Unfortunately dusty panels don t soak up as much of the sun s rays reducing the efficiency of.
Stirlings are far and away better and once you ve got the artificial sun wonder you rarely need anything else.
Their effectiveness is decreased by dust accumulations during dust storms.
Its effectiveness is decreased by dust accumulation and during dust storms.
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I can t remember the last time i actually built solar panels or batteries.
Solar panel is a power building in surviving mars.
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Mar 26 2018 5 39am sterling and solar power in domes.
You can build solar panels and anything else.
Custom solar cluster 37 small solar panels 37x 1 metal 37 metal.
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Also you can use the space betwen them to place solar panels or wind turbines etc.
They are protected from dust while turned off.
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With solar you need to build massive arrays of batteries.
Yeah i was wondering on the feasibility of this while i am less inclined to do so for solar panels it does sounds nice early on for sterling engines because of the polymer maintenance but i guess it makes no diffrence.
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The reason why is because everything else produces power 100 of the time.
Mars is an extremely dusty place and all of that red dirt loves to cling to your shiny solar panels.
And forgive me but i m at work and don t have the specific outputs in front of me.
The easiest and quickest is to build large solar panels.
The benefit is that you do not need to pay maintenance on the solar panels and no it is generally not worth it because domes are not cheap and solar panels don t produce that much electricity per hex.
Solar panels generate power during daytime.