Suggestion: Generators have biome dependencies

That is a different question. If you were to ask "does a solar panel work better on a tundra or a desert, given they are both on the same latitude?"

"The north pole" is a difficult topic, polar nights and stuff. All I know is that even in central Europe, photovoltaic solar panels already overheat, so I guess it's not a viable solution in deserts, as pointed out by Greg.

That's kind of my point. The question was about the north pole. When people say "north pole", they mean "a super cold place", but it's also the place where the Earth's axis-to-sun angle changes most quickly within a year. It can be the point that's farthest away from the sun, it's extremely inaccessible, I don't know about its weather situation... I'm not one to say "Naw, photovoltaics is gonna work there fo' sure!"

In Minecraft, snow biomes are just cold, and if I'm not mistaken, there's no reason to say the distance to the sun would be affected. Didn't electronic circuits work best in cold, dry environments, too?

Also, I like Gregs idea a lot: if it snows on solar panels (or the glass/transparent block above them), they stop working but were very efficient before. That'd leave us with a solution that makes almost everyone happy: Those who think solar panels are too easy to use because they're "place and forget" play in a snow biome and witness their true power (or engineer something that automatically melts the snow... contradictory because we originally said the efficiency came from the cold...), while others keep playing the way they do.

I meant "enigneer" as in "think about how you can un-snowify as many panels as possible using as little resources as possible", spreading torches is one possibility.

The ominous refrigerating cooling... er, HAYO?

Wow, I think saying "thank you" is in order! Thanks, man!