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If you want 1,000 Watts of power from your solar panels, how many square meters of solar panels do you need? (Hint: First, figure out how many Watts are produced by 1 square meter of solar panel

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If you want 1,000 Watts of power from your solar panels, how many square meters of solar panels do you need?

(Hint: First, figure out how many Watts are produced by 1 square meter of solar panel. This would be Watts = 1,360 W/m² x .15 = 204 Watts. To find out how many square meters of solar panels that you would need to get 1,000 Watts of power, you would divide 1,000 Watts by 204 Watts.)

 

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