"Output" of what?

Posted by Sherman in Idaho [72.47.153.28] on Wednesday, July 02, 2014 at 15:09:26 :

In Reply to: Re: You don't know what an "order of magnitude" is posted by gmharris [72.219.148.98] on Wednesday, July 02, 2014 at 12:36:42 :

Without some other term to specify what's being compared, "output" is meaningless. The "output" of my 318 is two orders of magnitude better than that of my Briggs & Stratton, but that doesn't mean anything. With solar panels, two things count: area and dollars. If you're saying "output per unit area", that's the same as "efficiency", and my point remains: if you're getting 200W/m^2 today, with 1000W/m^2 of solar flux, you're never going to increase that by an order of magnitude. But if you're talking cost, of course so long as the price is greater than zero, there's always room for more improvement there.

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• You're missing the point - Bob Thompson 17:16:26 07/02/2014
  • We only know what you say, not what you mean. :) ntx - gmharris 18:27:17 07/02/2014
    • Details, details. ;-) NT - Bob Thompson 19:29:16 07/02/2014
• You Win - gmharris 15:30:45 07/02/2014
• You Win - gmharris 15:28:05 07/02/2014

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