Horace Heffner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 8:12 PM 1/16/5, thomas malloy wrote: >> Horace Heffner posted; >> >>> >>> Cooling may be a luxury, but people in hot climates demand it. Heating on >>> the other hand, is a matter of health and safety here in Alaska. It is >>> often difficult just to keep the ice off the windshield here >> >> White man invent gas powered heater and absorption chiller. > > The objective is energy efficiency. You snipped the relevant part. As > fuel efficiency grows, the power requirements of vehicle cooling and > heating then begin to loom large. Meeting heating requirements by burning > fuel directly instead of using waste heat, to the extent possible, only > makes that problem worse.
On a clear hot day would state of the art solar panels on the roof and hood of a car provide enough electricty to run the AC? Harry