[joshontheweb]

Anyone know how feasible it would be to run this on solar power in the near future?

[nols]

Not really, it wouldn't even be feasible to replace the on-board electric with solar, ignoring propulsion. Using the information from here[1] it has five generators. One generator produces 4308kVA, and one of these [2] solar panels produces 0.296 kVA. So ~15,000 solar panels to replace one (of five) generator.

1 http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/world/

2 https://www.wholesalesolar.com/1977425/astronergy/solar-pane...

[joshontheweb]

Thanks for the info. Hopefully future breakthroughs can change this math substantially.

[gubby]

They can't, these solar panels are probably not much more than 20% efficient, so even an extra factor of five doesn't make a dent.