Unless you deploy a 20ft x 20ft canopy over the car with a concentrator lense. It is probably going to be the expensive versoin of a solar carport.
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Woodcock Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 12:54 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Ford to debut solar car On Jan 2, 2014, at 12:51 PM, damon henry <[email protected]> wrote: > They do not give specifics, but they mention they are using some kind of concentrator which presumably would allow them to focus a larger area of sun onto the solar panels on the car throwing off your math. Nope, concentrator (lens) versus no concentrator just affects the type of collector, not the area over which light is collected. The roof of the car is the roof of the car, not a black hole, bending light-waves toward it from elsewhere. It has a fixed area. -Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 841 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140102/92d0 dce6/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
