Originally Posted by
Ryan Mooney
I worked out once what it would take to power a beach buggy (basically drive to the beach, park all day then drive home). It was marginal over about 5 miles and mostly impossible over about 10 (which required spending a fair bit of effort to lighten the vehicle). Panels are somewhat more efficient now (well.. some are) so I think you could get 10 miles. That was also in HI where the sun shines brightly all day. It was an amusing idea anyway.
Granted the battery and solar panel technology is more complicated, but...we went from the Wright Brothers flying a hundred feet to putting a man on the moon in sixty some odd years.
I can only imagine how quaint and amusing we will be seen as by future generations.
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