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Work from anywhere: sailboats, solar generators, and Starlink

The Vergecast

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Is This a Generator?

This is a generator. If you have six of these panels and you place to put them, and they're at 90 degree angles to the sun, you can charge this battery in two and a half hours. But that requires a lot of things lining up, which isn't going to happen in an emergency. So if you really need a generator, you don't want this. You don't have that motor running that's going to renew itself over about nine hours. That's what it took me in real time testing. Then you could con ably use this at your tiny house in the woods and your hashtag van life. I could use it at the beach. Or you take it to

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