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[TurnerFam]

in today's battery environment, you'd have a LOT of weight attributed just to your power storage, so the idea of being 'off-grid' capable without ever needing a secondary power source to charge the smaller battery bank is still in play. We all may 'hope' that technology is close enough to make it happen without generators, but the reality is that with as much 'lectricity as we depend on, it's well into the future, and other technology may come into play before we ever actually get there, at least for the scenarios we envision right now.
Even our 'green' electric cars REQUIRE a power source to bring their batteries up to where we can actually USE the car... solar may not provide enough of that, at least not in a mobile environment, unless you want to also tow a 'solar trailer' for the sole purpose of having enough 'space' for the amount of solar you'd need... but then, how'd you tow your 'lectric car?

We'll get there... but it seems that there are processes and improvements and new technologies needed to actually make it happen.