What is solar irradiance?

[faba]

Help, I am stuck at home playing this game and have forgotten what is sunlight!!

Jokes aside, it's used for solar panels power generation and I can't find any info about that in the manual

[Thomas]

Make sure that you are checking latest manual - it was update week or two weeks ago - date on title page.

Solar Irradiance in manual 5.5.6.5:

*=Production depends on Solar Irradiance. Above the Earth baseline of
1367 W/m2 more output, below less output. Production depends also on rainfall. If
too much rainfall not enough sunlight gets through.

[流れ星]

Ionizing high energy radiation from the dreaded Day Star. It burns the eyes and gives many different sorts of cancer. Avoid at all cost. Don't become a statistic.

[Jenkem]

Btw the most updated manual is in the “steamapps/common/shadow empire” directory, as I could not find the 1.25 manual online anywhere.

But put simply, solar panels work better on planets with more sunlight and less rainfall. Being that they give you free energy, they take a lot of rare metals to build.

[faba]

Originally posted by Thomas:

*=Production depends on Solar Irradiance. Above the Earth baseline of
1367 W/m2 more output, below less output. Production depends also on rainfall. If
too much rainfall not enough sunlight gets through.

So, what does that even mean? Is that info present somewhere?

[Thomas]

Rep -> Help -> Solar Statistics -> you have at bottom 'Solar Panel mod(ifier)' in %.

And during detailed planet generation -> in first window that has sun and plaent - you have Solar Irradiance amount in W/m2

[faba]

Thank you!