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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (3 children)

now all we need are solar panels to clean the solar panel-cleaning solar panels

[–] ThisSeriesIsFalse 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just give it a little squeegee on a robot arm to run down its panel every so often

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

with a solar panel to power it of course

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But who will clean that solar panel?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

a smaller cleaning robot obviously, powered by a smaller solar panel

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Just tinier and tinier solar squeegy bots forever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems like it could power its own, keeping it a closed loop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

next iteration of panels will use a Möbius loop!