Certainly, you wouldn’t want to use water for this in water constrained environments.
> “In our single-panel prototype setup, the parasitic energy consumed by the pump and fan actually exceeded the immediate electrical power gain generated by the cooling effect
Lots of solar is being curtailed today because there isn’t enough daylight load and batteries to soak it up. There is potential to shift that power around on site, power that otherwise be wasted, to increase generation at other times. But perhaps it’s simply not worth it when applied at utility scale.
Hopefully that wasn't the actual test setup lol.
Edit: h god it is.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259012302...
Bro. I can see that electric shadow wire in figure 1. If that moves across the control panel throughout the day the test is totally bunk.