My physics is rusty but how many horsepower per Watt? A family car isn't going to run on a horsepower value in the single digits. That solar-powered race they run or used to run in Australia - those are pretty light-weight race cars. And the Australian Outback when they run/ran that race was pretty sunny - what do the people in Seattle do, or most places in the northern hemisphere in winter? And using the energy incident on a car or house to cool that house isn't going to be terribly efficient. The best it could be at 100% efficiency would be to remove the effect of the insolation* on the vehicle/house, which would still leave the vehicle/house at the same temperature as the surroundings. That might work in some places but down here south of the Mason-Dixon line that would not get it.
* Not a typo insolation = incoming solar radiation ---------- >From: "Ted Rook" <[email protected]> >To: "<"<[email protected]> >Subject: 1kW per square meter.......free >Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2002, 1:52 PM > > > sorry, off topic, mostly for US residents: > > just imagine everyone's car being coated with 'solar cell generator' > material with a storage device in the trunk...... > > and how about air-conditioners that run on the Stirling cycle from a solar > energy collector... > > lousy for the oil lobby but fantastic for the human race > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety > Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. > > Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to: > [email protected] > with the single line: > unsubscribe emc-pstc > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Ron Pickard: [email protected] > Dave Heald: [email protected] > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Richard Nute: [email protected] > Jim Bacher: [email protected] > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ > Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
