MagnusPrimal wrote:***Galvatron*** wrote:MagnusPrimal wrote:There's really been no reason given why the don't use solar power. You'd think if they would set up solar power 'farms', either on a planet or in space, they could fill up a lot of energon cubes, with very little effort expended. Especially if they kept quiet about it, and didn't let the other side know of it's location.
Well it would make for an abundant power source yes but solar power is still turned into steam power or other means to turn the generators etc...also you need vast solar arrays covering many acres or miles of land or in this case space but it would make for a large and tempting target for any decepticons ( evil plan formulating )that either want to steal it or obliterate it.
It would obviously have to be heavily defended.
Not if you accept the premise that Cybertronian tech is much more advanced than Terran tech, and their solar absortion devices would be much smaller and more efficient. Heck, look at what they did with Grapple's tower! Have a few of those, hidden, do it quietly, no fuss, no muss, you've got a nice little energy source that no one knows about!
Perhaps so but you forget in that episode where it says that the top of the tower is in another time zone so that sounds pretty big to me. You can't have it hidden so much as it will have to be in direct sunlight to absorb the energy and it will be lit up like a christmas tree... Decepticons ATTACK!!!
