r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/JPPT1974 Interested • 15h ago

Video Automated Solar Panel Cleaning System Which Is Also Powered By What Else--Solar Panel!

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u/Q-Vision 15h ago

I would expect a mini Solar Cleaner for the Cleaner. And a mini mini solar cleaner for ... we'll, you get the idea.

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u/EagleDre 15h ago

Matryoshka panels

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u/beto_pelotas 15h ago

Yo dawg!

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 15h ago

What do you do at the end of the line? How do you clean a dirty photon?

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u/Scoobydoomed 14h ago

Simple you keep going smaller until you reach plank size and since plank is the smallest size dirt can't stick to it.

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt 14h ago

Yes, a photon's wavelength can theoretically be much shorter than the Planck length (around (10{-35}) meters), but our current physics breaks down at that scale, suggesting such a photon would be incredibly energetic, behaving more like a mini black hole or getting lost in quantum foam rather than a simple wave, with some theories suggesting space itself might be discrete below this limit. 

So quantum foam would stick to it

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u/NotANormalMf 10h ago

We get a quantum cleaner

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u/Randyaccredit 15h ago

Use a photon?

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u/tankapotamus 15h ago

They should have done it just for the laughs.

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u/BlueMonkey-CoCo 14h ago

Well, it's not going to clean itself Steve!

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u/Imaginary-Summer-506 9h ago

fr like where does it end, gotta have a mini mini cleaner for the mini one too

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u/Dolioli_squared 5h ago

Reminds me of the little cleaner robot from WALL-E 😂

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u/Iggy_DB 15h ago

Now tell me who cleans the robot that cleans the panels?

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u/Arcosim 12h ago

A longer video of this was posted not long ago. The docking station at the extremes of the solar panel row has a long brush that cleans the clearner's panel when it docks.

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u/Pat0124 13h ago

I would imagine it passes under a brush when it’s done

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u/CriticismEmergency98 14h ago

Human

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u/speqter 7h ago

Solar-powered human.

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u/BurntNeurons 6h ago

All humans are solar powered. 🤓

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u/LoneStarHome80 1h ago

A little cleaning robot that goes up vertically on it.

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u/Windronin 10h ago

What's more annoying than one bad background music? Two background musics! Totally clashing with eachother overlapped !

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u/-hx 5h ago

Absolute shit tier post

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u/seamus1982seamus 13h ago

WHO CLEANS THE CLEANERS

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u/K_the_farmer 11h ago

The clean cleaners.

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u/Glitch0110 15h ago

Y‘all ignoring the fact that since the solar panel powered solar panel cleaner can move they wouldn’t just build it a minicar wash

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u/YetiGuy 14h ago

Good if you have long rows of panels. In most fields there are multiple rows of panels so you’d need as many cleaners as there are rows; or manually transfer the cleaner.

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u/-hx 5h ago

Why is there two songs playing? Cancerous

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u/HatsusenoRin 11h ago

And who cleans the Solar Panel Cleaning System's panel?

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u/charlesthedinosaur 15h ago

Now we need an automated solar panel cleaning system for the solar powered automated solar panel cleaning system

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u/Greenman8907 15h ago

But what cleans the solar powered cleaning machine that cleans solar powered cleaning machines?

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u/PeterTheSmoker 15h ago

The good old elbow grease.

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u/NotAnError7492 12h ago

What happens when there's snow and ice on it?

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u/delux561 15h ago

Clean solar power powered solar panel cleaner

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u/gorginhanson 15h ago

Infinite power!

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u/LaCroixElectrique 11h ago

Is this like the Forth bridge thing, by the time it finishes the whole grid it’s time to start again?

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u/Heterodynist 10h ago

“They took our solar dustin’ jobs!!”

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u/Skarfa 6h ago

But what cleans the solar panel for the solar panel cleaner.

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u/Bulky-Life-69 5h ago

Of course it is another solar panel cleaner that will clean the solar panel of the solar panel cleaner

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u/Skywanker_ 1h ago

I wonder how high this loop can get

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u/altherik 4h ago

A neat way to do this, and one that's often a senior capstone project at some engineering schools, is creating a variable electrostatic field on the panel to avoid getting dust on there in the first place. At least, this will make physically scrubbing like this less frequent.

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u/LoneStarHome80 1h ago

Needs more overlapping soundtracks.

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u/Imaginary_Unit5109 15h ago

In china because I think this type of cleaning accidentally life in the desert. The solar panels provide enough shade and the water system provide enough water transform the desert and bring life to it.

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u/brenden77 15h ago

Let it clean at night instead of interrupting the solar production. smh

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u/HighSeasArchivist 38m ago

Injuneer 101.