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by mlyle 1151 days ago
So, let's cut down the pedantry a bit. Even in the most pessimal reasonable orbits, up to an hour of outage in the middle of the night for 3-4 months per year is a very different beast from getting just several hours of sun per day.

Why?

- You still get better duty cycle from the panels

- The time the power is missing is very small

- The need for storage, etc, is low because it's a short period of relatively low demand that is missing.