We need a new way to keep solar panels dust-free.

Dust, explains Muller, lands on the solar panel due to gravitational and other deposition methods.

Clean Getaway?

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Furthermore, he adds that the researchers conducted tests with road dust, which is an ideal case.

A 24 megwatt solar farm in Joshua Tree, California. The Cascade solar power plant.

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