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Comment by JumpCrisscross

1 year ago

One could argue concentrated solar power [1] is thermal as opposed to photovoltaics.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power

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singhrac  1 year ago

shrug sure, but people don’t talk about it that way, at least around me. They use thermal to mean a power source where you burn something and get energy out.

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