[Spaceships] Query: Area of a Solar Panel Array

[DaltonS]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Hm. Compare to Topaz solar farm at 3,500 acres. Actually, that's not an unreasonable size for your gas station, 3,500 acres is 14 million square meters, and 3 x SM+11 power plant should be on the order of 9 gigawatts (space-based systems are likely to be far more compact than ground-based).

Actually according to the rules from GURPS Classic: Vehicles page 96, the power generated by that area of "solar cells" should be 270 MW on Earth which would translate to 120 MW on Mars. (The rate was 0.08 kW/sf if you are wondering.)

Dalton “A factor of 75 isn't too much, is it?” Spence