Ya got most of reality. Missed a whole bunch of life lessons learned by living it! Will be happy to fill in the details. You buy dinner, I cover the tip, chain restaurants are out.
The paradigm shift occurred and is now reachable by Joe Average.
Take the Auto-Train four times yearly, continuing to upstate NY. This will be the last trip powered by gasoline. Two other individuals are using my model. A physical chemist and an MD. Good company for a grunt.
Our Leaf would make it. Too long charging, though.
If you want to send me a personal message, my email works. I even check the spam box.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Robert Bruninga [email protected] wrote:
Here are a few more solar factoids (for your mobile satellite operations):
The solar panel area to fully power the average American commuter car (EV) for the average 12,000 miles per year is about 150 sqft (a 3 kW array)
Amazingly, the area of a typical car parking space is also about 150 sqft.
So all one needs to do is cover their car parking space with solar panels and have free local transportation energy for LIFE. And amazingly enough, each car in America has at least 5 parking spaces for it. One at home, one on the street, one at work, one at church, one at shopping and sports venus, etc... so all you need is just one to be covered in solar panels and we have carbon free local transportation (12,000 miles a year for free and for l life).
See: http://insideevs.com/design-relationship-between-electric-cars-solar/
In addition, The supply chain from the roof of the carport (also providing shade to the car below it) is about 30 feet and is over 85% efficient, and you own it and no one can take it away or change the costs on you at any time.
Compare this to the 8000 mile supply chain from oil well to your gas tank, where there are dozens of risky greedy players in the middle and where only 20% of the energy actually gets to your car.
So it is no coincidence that now almost every car manufacturer is seeing the light and is now building an EV (there are over 30 on the market now*). They may not be advertising them because they make higher profit margins on selling gas cars to gullible buyers, but they are positioning themselves for when consumers wake up and also see the light for their local transportation needs.
BMW has already said that all of their cars will be electric (or hybrid) within 10 years.
For your mobile satellite station, however, this does not say to cover the roof of your car with solar (unless it is a flat RV or van) because the mobile satellite station is only in use about an hour a day while the parking SPACE with SOLAR panels is operating sun-up-to-sun-down and flat panels cost only 10% of ones that can bend a little. Plus the full dimensions of a "parking space" is actually more than 10 times the surface area of the small center portion of the roof of a car. So the cost effectiveness of solar on the car is about 10% of 10% or about 1% the effectiveness of having them on your car port.
Besides, keeping the roof clear for antennas is more important anyway.
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