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by Aachen 663 days ago
"Sometimes it rained in a part of town only" does not disprove the person saying "it can be sunny virtually everywhere at the same time in a small country"

For a simple demonstration, https://www.buienradar.nl/nederland/zon-en-wolken/wolkenrada... has been showing cloudless hours pretty regularly in the last month. Someone meaning malice can certainly keep an eye on that for a few days to find a good moment

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Being sunny everywhere at the same time is not the problem with solar panels, and I think this was already covered up thread so this feels like going in circles.

The problem is what percentage are generally in full sun, and how low that percentage goes. My comment was about assuming that all of the panels are not in sun at the same time. Not whether sunny days exist.

> "it can be sunny virtually everywhere at the same time in a small country"

> When it is sunny in the netherlands, it is likely sunny everywhere in NL because of how small the country is.

These statements are not the same. They're quite different, actually. One talks about most sunny days, one talks about one sunny day.