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Comment by 05

16 hours ago

Indoor lighting is about two orders of magnitude dimmer, you’d need 1kW/m*2 (100W/sqft) to emulate a cloudless day at noon, so 20kW just to light up your living room, not accounting for LED losses.

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adrianN  15 hours ago

You can get away with less because a good part of the power is outside the visible range.

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