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Old 12-15-2016, 05:54 AM   #301 (permalink)
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Hmm.

Did you check out how many watts per square foot you get with solar panels?

Quick googling gets you at ~15w/sqft. Where are you going to find 1000 square feet of surface?

I'm sure there are better ones on the market than that, but still...not the 10x more powerful ones you would need.

Have a look at the solar racers - all solar powered "cars" - or whatever they're called...those things are only running on a couple of hundred watts, at a guess.

Most solar panels you buy off the shelf are massively over-rated in the watts department. I bought one, read the fine print, then returned it. Their math works like this: Multiply the open circuit voltage times the short-circuit amperage and that's how they get at "100" watts. They will never produce that in reality.

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