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One of my favorite stories from the Cold War arms race was how America got so shook by the MiG-25 that they designed and built the greatest fighter platform of all time to counter it, and then later found out the scary Soviet wunderwaffe was actually a gigantic piece of shit that could reach its purported top speed precisely once before melting its own engines.

Someone was driving a boat wth a Prius engine, 4 knots, 2 liters per hour of fuel burn...

So 3000 nautical miles at 4 knots would be 750 hours which would be 1500 liters or 400 gallons of gasoline.

That's about $1500 worth of gas, so I guess the panels basically just reached their payback period.