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by Consultant32452 1461 days ago
Almost certainly usable by the military, but not the way most people in the thread are responding. The military does a lot of humanitarian aid and rebuilding type work outside of war zones. If this solar array can be quickly and easily deployed off a boat and then you just drag a cable on shore to power a local town that could be very useful compared to having generators and having to ship diesel constantly.

Massive Earthquake knocks out the infrastructure in Haiti? Just send the solar boat and, even without batteries, you have a daytime power plant set up in a day. I wonder how much power storage you could get with a hand full of tractor trailer/shipping container sized batteries.