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Anyone know how feasible it would be to run this on solar power in the near future?

• nols 9y ago
  Not really, it wouldn't even be feasible to replace the on-board electric with solar, ignoring propulsion. Using the information from here[1] it has five generators. One generator produces 4308kVA, and one of these [2] solar panels produces 0.296 kVA. So ~15,000 solar panels to replace one (of five) generator. 1 http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/world/ http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/world/ 2 https://www.wholesalesolar.com/1977425/astronergy/solar-panels/astronergy-chsm6612p-325-silver-poly-solar-panel https://www.wholesalesolar.com/1977425/astronergy/solar-pane...
  • joshontheweb 9y ago
    Thanks for the info. Hopefully future breakthroughs can change this math substantially.
    • gubby 9y ago
      They can't, these solar panels are probably not much more than 20% efficient, so even an extra factor of five doesn't make a dent.