From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Clark
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:39 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:53 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Well let's see, my car has 306 horsepower, one horsepower is equal to 746
watts so my car needs 228,276 watts. On a bright day at noon solar cells
produce about 10 watts per square foot, so my car would need 22,827 square
feet of solar cells, that's not counting the additional air resistance
caused by the 151x151 foot rectangle mounted on the car's roof. And how do I
get to work at night or on cloudy days
> You're car engine needs to generate that 306hp when it's going about
150mph.
My car can't go 150mph or even come close to it, my car uses 306 horsepower
when it needs to accelerate to highway speed in the on-ramp of a expressway
or when I need to pass a slower car on a 2 lane road.
> In normal highway use it's probably making about 30hp.
>>So now you need to make the solar cells adjustable so that the giant
square welded to the roof of my car can shrink gown from 151x151 feet to
48x48 feet. However air resistance still might be a bit of a problem and I'm
still going to have to put a "WIDE LOAD" sign on the back of the car.
Solar PV cells can't power rocket ships either - so what? You raise a straw
man argument. No one is suggesting that, but you who have raised it - with
the suggestion that because PV cannot DIRECTLY power your vehicle, that it
is therefore of no value whatsoever as a power source.
Could your car run - again directly -- on coal. or nuclear energy? By your
same logic these energy sources are therefore worthless. As I said.. A
classic straw man argument.
Chris
John K Clark
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