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Is there a EE in the house?
 
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Please keep in mind, any and all of this could be wrong, but here goes.
Using Ankh's numbers as gospel, since I don't have the chops to second-guess them, we have 42914KW, 107285389KW, and 89875500000000000J.
The problem with this, at least in making an apples-apples comparison, is that while the KW numbers are a measurement of the generation capacity of the device, the Joules number is a stored-energy capacity, which will run down over x period.
My rough numbers state that if we match the lower solar power budget, we end up with our kilogram of physics-experiment hydrogen being able to power our device for 581754 hours = 24239 days = 66.41 years. Matching the larger solar sail makes a mere 232 hours = 9.7 days = .03 years

Please keep in mind that this is Spherical Cow of Uniform Density territory - when writing, remember that the only laws you must obey are Thermodynamics.
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