I wanted to provide a clever insight here saying they should bring some more solar panels, but unless my back of the napkin calculations are totally off that would work poorly. To begin with, there’s very little sunlight at the south pole and efficiency of panels is 10% of normal. Admittedly I’m only glancing through this paper, but an installation to generate an average continuous 2.5kW would have a total cost $250k [1].
The good news is that if you did do that, 2.5kW would allow you to heat a very significant amount of water per hour, even from ice to shower temperature. Like a US gallon in 4 minutes from 0º to 35ºC.
The good news is that if you did do that, 2.5kW would allow you to heat a very significant amount of water per hour, even from ice to shower temperature. Like a US gallon in 4 minutes from 0º to 35ºC.
1: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/14220/Jam...