From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of LizR
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 1:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating
Solar cells are getting cheaper and easier to use (e.g. flexible plastic
ones). It should be possible to stick them anywhere you want, e.g. on
buildings or cars. This would mean at least some solar power could be
harvested using existing infrastructure. As usual the technology is there,
or almost there, but this needs political or commercial will to achieve.
One idea I like is to engineer road surface blocks that double as solar
collectors. to turn the road surface itself into an energy harvesting
medium. It is not as outlandish at it may seem at first. The PV layer would
be beneath a tough layer of relatively clear roughened glass (good
traction), and the blocks would be built to last for the useful life of the
embedded PV.
>>Personally I'd like to see a solar farm that uses the energy it receives
from the Sun to power machinery that sucks CO2 and water from the air and
turns them into petrol. (Then you really could run a 747 on solar power :)
If battery energy density improves by a factor of around ten - lithium-air
or zinc-air variants are getting so close in the lab at least -- you could
have all electric jumbo jets, running on electric turbines.
Chris
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