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Andrew Liszewski

April 16 219 10:05am

Filed to:SNOW

The farther you get from the equator, the less effective solar panels become at reliably generating power all year round. And it’s not just the shorter spans of sunlight during the winter months that are a problem; even a light dusting of snow can render solar panels ineffective. As a result of global warming, winters are only going to get more severe, but there’s at least one silver lining as researchers from UCLA have come up with a way to harness electricity from all that snow.

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https://gizmodo.com/winters-are-only-going-to-get-worse-so-researchers-inv-1834076615