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pianotuna

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Posted: 08/25/22 09:08am Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

Hi All,

This may be be the ultimate boondocking units?

https://solarrolla.com/vehicles/


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My ride is a 28 foot Class C, 256 watts solar, 556 amp-hours of Telcom jars, 3000 watt Magnum hybrid inverter, Sola Basic Autoformer, Microair Easy Start.

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Lol, let's see an RV is going to need at a bare minimum 100kWh of battery, in a van footprint, with wings you can maybe fit 3kW of panels. In an average NA summer day you get about 6 hours of full sun equivalent so you can get 18kWh of power. If you want to go 150-200 miles every week I guess you can have a solar powered RV.


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Posted: 08/25/22 12:47pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

afidel wrote:

Lol, let's see an RV is going to need at a bare minimum 100kWh of battery, in a van footprint, with wings you can maybe fit 3kW of panels. In an average NA summer day you get about 6 hours of full sun equivalent so you can get 18kWh of power. If you want to go 150-200 miles every week I guess you can have a solar powered RV.
Maybe the campground could install some panels and charge your RV with solar power. Could provide shade to reduce the electric load of the air conditioners also.

I am sorry your glass is only half full.


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Posted: 08/25/22 01:10pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

The Route del Sol unit has 6kw panels.

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Posted: 08/25/22 01:52pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

time2roll wrote:

afidel wrote:

Lol, let's see an RV is going to need at a bare minimum 100kWh of battery, in a van footprint, with wings you can maybe fit 3kW of panels. In an average NA summer day you get about 6 hours of full sun equivalent so you can get 18kWh of power. If you want to go 150-200 miles every week I guess you can have a solar powered RV.
Maybe the campground could install some panels and charge your RV with solar power. Could provide shade to reduce the electric load of the air conditioners also.

I am sorry your glass is only half full.


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So, instead of planting trees, grasses, food crops to correct supposed man made climate change, we instead strip the land of all it's vegetation, turn the entire planet into vast swaths of solar arrays (which down the road is discovered to cause more "climate change" because solar panels absorb and re radiate heat from the sun) all so someone can drive a solar powered vehicle or RV?

Don't think that won't happen?

Think again, it is happening now..

Imagine all of those wonderful natural places where you camp in, a few yrs down the road loaded to the hilt with all of those eyesores instead of green vegetation, trees and wildlife..

Grand canyon? Grand solar canyon..

Joshua Tree? Joshua solar panel..

Ahh.. nothing like a nature hike in the giant solar panel forest..

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Posted: 08/25/22 02:16pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

I planted 5000 trees in my backyard. Can I have an EV now?

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Posted: 08/25/22 02:47pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

the route del sol electric rv ended like this
I regret doing this ?? My SOLAR VAN was DESTROYED in the desert
skip to half way through the youtube video solar panels laying on the ground

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Posted: 08/25/22 03:06pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

Surely some group has estimated how much area will be required for solar panels or turnings to provide sufficient power to meet todays needs, not to mention future needs. Nice thin about nuclear or fossil fuels is you need more energy, build another plan. Hard to build more land.


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Posted: 08/25/22 03:39pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

Gdetrailer wrote:

So, instead of planting trees, grasses, food crops to correct supposed man made climate change, we instead strip the land of all it's vegetation, turn the entire planet into vast swaths of solar arrays (which down the road is discovered to cause more "climate change" because solar panels absorb and re radiate heat from the sun) all so someone can drive a solar powered vehicle or RV?
Please do some actual research on this. The effects have been considered.

pianotuna

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shastagary wrote:

the route del sol electric rv ended like this
I regret doing this ?? My SOLAR VAN was DESTROYED in the desert
skip to half way through the youtube video solar panels laying on the ground


Not necessarily so.

https://youtu.be/R5qPr9eNApw

and

https://youtu.be/o1G5vEG1fKU?list=PLlph5Xtc11M3y_ZPbB1ZyjLTImEp5HV15

and

https://youtu.be/7SXNSuI5om4?list=PLlph5Xtc11M3y_ZPbB1ZyjLTImEp5HV15

* This post was edited 08/25/22 04:14pm by pianotuna *

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