666 = 5328 / 8

666 = 5328 / 8

666 is everywhere.

I found Satan in Solar!

The 5328 is the number of panels Tesla installed on this Samoan island to handle the power needs of 600 people.

8 is the number of panels that Ad Astra to take care of her crew of 5. (But we only need the residential side of the power).

Extra Credit:

Each of these panels weighs 44 pounds. The ITS will carry 990,000 pounds of payload on each trip to Mars. Thus, with a single flight you can deliver 5.8 Mega Watts of power. But you do have to multiply by 0.56 to account for the distance to Mars but the thinner atmosphere helps transmit much more light, so you get 3.3MW. (Mars has an average insolation as Germany or Virginia.)

*And* that is *if* you decide to buy off the shelf panels from Amazon where 90% of the mass is the substrate glass panel that the solar cells are mounted on.

If you chose to bring a smaller amount of cells as-is, say 10% as many ready made you would still have a 0.33 MW power plant which would be enough power to start making glass panels by simply scooping up the regolith and baking out the 1.3% H2O and then fuse the remaining trailings into a glass.

Then with your remaining mass budget you could carry 10x more solar cells in rolls and glue them on your Martian glass when you get there. After gluing on your solar cells you would have 33 MW of total power!

And that is from just one ITS flight.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/22/13712750/tesla-microgrid-tau-samoa

Originally posted on Facebook on November 23, 2016.