Solar Power cells for Military Vehicles
Greetings: Shester a member of the Sottish Union has just approved
the exporting of solar panel cells used to power Military land vehicles.
Vehicle Solar Power Cells
Photovoltaic (PV) System Installed in
Military Vehicles by Solar Starr
Cumulative power generated from solar panels since installation:
4167 KilloWatt Hours (KWH) as of 6 June 2005
System: 32 Kyocera KC120 panels, Trace SW4048 Inverter with ground fault interrupter and battery backup.
Contact the Shester Department of Defense logistics for a demonstration.
Units cost $ 1,500.00
If you use solar cells that are based on your vehicles then your in a world of trouble, as they couldn't move throught highly muddy areas and a single sniper could cripple them, as solar cells as fragile.
Yeah, and if you have 1500 tanks and there is a cloud in the sky, 2 could destroy them.
The cells are not intended to be a total replacement for traditonal fuel.
Yes they can be damaged or covered in mud, so can integrated sight units
for weapon systems. The cells are easier to replace than a ISU.
The cells along with the batteries give a standard heavy combat tank
an additional 100 miles. If the sun goes away just turn on the fuel.
These cells are small. not large. Cavalry Combat Veterans have designed
this technology.
Transnapastain
07-06-2005, 04:13
Wouldn’t you think, then, that, if the solar collectors are small….then they’d have a hard time collecting enough energy for a full charge. Not to mention taking forever to do so. Useless at night, during a storm, or in muddy conditions. Hardly seems cost effective.
No matter how you slice it, friend, solar power for vehicles is not feasible. While it is easily, but not cheaply, doable, it is not cost effective. You still have the fuel supply lines to worry about, as well as cost, not to mention the “environmental” effects those people are always whining about. All of which is what solar power is intended to end.
In the end what you’ll end up with is spending more money on producing more impractical parts for tanks, and other military vehicles, and spending more money and time then you need.
We suggest that you abandon this impractical and illogical idea before your defense budget takes a serious hit in next years allotment.