Perhaps this is a sacrilege on this list, but I'm planning to provide cabin heat in my 1981 Electranagon with... diesel fuel!
I got hold of an old Webasto hydronic heater. You can find them used among boat people, bulletin boards at marinas, etc. They sip a tiny bit of diesel fuel, and turn it into fairly large quantities of hot water, which I plan to run through my Vanagon's heater core. Electricity is (as HT Odum would put it) a "high transformity fuel," meaning it is highly refined and contains a lot of embedded energy. Why waste it heating up resistors? A 3kW electric heater running for an hour uses up over ten percent of a typical EV battery, whereas one tank of diesel will last me all winter. Anyway, just a thought... Jan > From: Al via EV <[email protected]> > > It's that time of year, time to get the heater installed in my EV. :::: When money becomes the deciding factor in food marketing, some very bad things can happen. I keep thinking about how during the famine in Ireland, the country’s grain was sold in the higher English commodity markets to pay rents to absentee landlords while the Irish people starved. Now that’s what I call real price discovery. -- Gene Logsdon :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: _______________________________________________ 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)
