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WTF?! Solar panels might be a clean-energy-producing technology, but there's little we can do when the weather interferes – or is there? A startup backed by Y Combinator has plans to manufacture drones that fly inside clouds to disperse them so solar farm panels aren't blocked from seeing sunlight.
Meteoric Technologies Inc., the creation of two engineers from the University of Cambridge, announced its plan to use drones as a way of increasing the efficiency of solar farms.
The proposal involves sending fleets of dozens or even hundreds of autonomous drones into low- and mid-altitude clouds (about 0.6 to 3.1 miles high) above solar farms and altering the water droplets that form them – without the use of chemicals.
