On 1/13/2020 5:56 PM, shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list) wrote:

> Well, that'd have to be a *really* big solar panel. At 100%
> efficiency you get less than a kilowatt per square meter. And that's
> with bright sunlight.
>
> So if a shot uses 50 kJ of energy (pretty low) it'd take about a
> minute to replace the energy used.

I don't think the idea is "bottomless magazine, recharge in combat" so
much as "wilderness survival with no access to external power, recharge
in downtime".

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