Agree, that's why my post was phrased to use the car as an energy collector, while static in the car park eight hours per day, and not to suggest using solar electric power as a substitute for gasoline.
We have invested 100 years engineering development into the four stroke IC engine and now accept 30% efficiency from diesel and gasoline IC engines. The Stirling cycle engine has been neglected as a power source because it doesn't burn petroleum products so won't make money for the oil interests. Not sure about your A/C math. It seems to require lots of assumptions. My point was to prompt consideration of how much incoming energy we ignore because it is 'low grade' and yet at the same time we consume huge quantities of 'high grade' energy in the form of gasoline, natural gas and electricity. This is v. wasteful. The answer IMHO lies with individuals taking steps to reduce domestic power consumption and not with centralized power companies, in whose interest it is to keep things as they are. My electricity costs 17c per kWh. I can generate it using a gasoline generator for a fraction of that cost but the fly in the ointment is the capital cost and maintenance requirements. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
