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How do you measure efficiency ? Is it amount of energy spent to generate equivalent energy worth of gasoline ? ( Will one megawatts solar plant generate about 0.25 gallon gasoline per minute ? )


There are a couple of kinds of efficiency, i.e. Faradaic efficiency vs overall efficiency. We are talking about overall efficiency, which is electrical energy turned into useful chemical energy.




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