Didn’t know where else to put this, but I felt the urge to share it when I saw it, and thought you slrpnk folks might get a kick out of it!
EDIT: Since there’s some skepticism over the panel, the source I got it from:
https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/2013-04-trail-notes-solar-camel/
“The only uncomplaining one is Madoita, the lead camel. He is both warmed and shaded by a $600 blanket of photovoltaic silicon cells. He is a belching, furry, ambulatory wall plug for my satellite phone. We take turns cleaning the dust from these cells with a cloth. A new chore on an ancient caravan trail: Wiping down your solar camel.”
If you were going to do this, wouldn’t it make more sense to have the solar panels draping down like chain mail?
In looking up historical examples of camel barding, I actually did not find much, but this is similar towhat I had envisioned.
Considering the dearth of actual examples, though, perhaps such raiment was not actually used.
I just realized “dearth” is one of those words I’ve heard but never seen written down.
Usually it’s the other way around.
Now I’m tripping that it looks perfect and wrong at the same time
to be fair it was quite hard to take and develop photos back then