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[HN] Sweden is testing a semi-truck covered in 100 square meters of solar panels (www.popsci.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Generally speaking, solar panels aren’t optimized for near-constant traveling.

Do they mean it can't get a net positive amount of energy produced while driving it? Because, relativistically I don't see why near constant speed is different from being near stationary for solar panels.