On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 9:23 PM Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:
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> On 1/13/2020 5:56 PM, shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list) wrote:
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> > 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".
>
>

That's where I was going with that, yeah.
Set it up when you're in camp, charge all the tech-toys you're carrying.