New testing conducted at France's oldest PV system have shown that its solar modules can still provide performance values in line with what the manufacturers promised.
    • LiquidSmoke@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      Carter called for solar panels to be installed on the White House in 1979. Modern ones are probably way more efficient but they were definitely a thing.

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        Solar panels have also been used in space mission for a very long time. The first solar powered probe was Vanguard 1 in 1958

    • MagicShel@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      Jesus Christ. Look, back in the Stone Age when I went to school the coolest calculator was the TI-36 Solar. It was already that mundane.

      Naturally, I used a non-solar Casio, because I wasn’t one of the cool nerds.

      • bassad@jlai.luEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        damn you just reminded me my mom bought a basic calculator with tiny solar panel 25 years ago : it is still working !