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Originally Posted by erlangshen
2. Where's the fuel for GN drives? No fuel? only solar power? See any solar panel in the surface of the Gundams? no? the spheres are solar panels? Look up in google as in how much solar panel is required to power a city. That is why it is not applicable as the main source of power in real life.
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The misconception by a lot of people regarding the "Solar Power" for the Gundams in 00 is that they're truly powered by sunlight. As has been pointed out in various sources, the "Solar Furnace" used by the Gundams is just a name to refer to the GN Drive system, which uses GN Particle tech, and is no way related to solar panels or sunlight.
The confusion stems from the fact that there are two definitions of Solar Energy in 00, the one from the Orbital Elevators - which is the tech most familiar to us today as 'Solar Energy', and the GN technology used by the Gundams, which are similar only in name, not in principle. Which is why comparing GN Drives to Solar panels is innapropriate when they're not even related.