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all middle class should have home solar power
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benjamindees
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August 16, 2012, 07:05:26 AM |
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all middle class should have home solar power
Solar power is good for running air conditioning in the middle of the day. Electric cars charge at night.
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August 16, 2012, 07:27:55 AM |
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all middle class should have home solar power
Solar power is good for running air conditioning in the middle of the day. Electric cars charge at night. Solar Panel->Battery
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August 16, 2012, 05:11:54 PM |
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all middle class should have home solar power
Solar power is good for running air conditioning in the middle of the day. Electric cars charge at night. Solar Panel->Battery Cars are an excellent place to put solar panels on, especially foldable ones that can be put on the windows. This keeps it from becoming superheated and generates electricity at the same time. It's killing two birds with one stone. Some types of renewable energy are not suited for cars, however: - Wind Power: Unless it's a really windy day and the car is nearly stopped, this will waste more energy than it will generate.
- Geothermal Power: Quite obvious, hopefully.
- Hydro Power: Hopefully still obvious.
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August 16, 2012, 05:17:03 PM |
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all middle class should have home solar power
Solar power is good for running air conditioning in the middle of the day. Electric cars charge at night. Solar Panel->Battery Cars are an excellent place to put solar panels on, especially foldable ones that can be put on the windows. This keeps it from becoming superheated and generates electricity at the same time. It's killing two birds with one stone. Some types of renewable energy are not suited for cars, however: - Wind Power: Unless it's a really windy day and the car is nearly stopped, this will waste more energy than it will generate.
- Geothermal Power: Quite obvious, hopefully.
- Hydro Power: Hopefully still obvious.
Cars can certainly be powered by those generation methods, they just need to be used at the power station, rather than on the vehicle. Battery technology needs to improve a good bit before electric cars are really suited for the masses.
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August 16, 2012, 05:35:55 PM |
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Compressed hydrogen is an excellent method for energy storage. Hydrogen fuel cells convert the hydrogen to electricity and produce water vapor as the exhaust.
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August 16, 2012, 05:42:36 PM |
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Compressed hydrogen is an excellent method for energy storage. Hydrogen fuel cells convert the hydrogen to electricity and produce water vapor as the exhaust.
Energy storage is important, but what about the other parts of energy? I think energy production and energy conservation are too often ignored.
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August 16, 2012, 05:50:03 PM |
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Compressed hydrogen is an excellent method for energy storage. Hydrogen fuel cells convert the hydrogen to electricity and produce water vapor as the exhaust.
Energy storage is important, but what about the other parts of energy? I think energy production and energy conservation are too often ignored. I'm not ignoring energy production. It should have the following qualities: - Renewable - Environmentally friendly Most have some tradeoffs and environmental issues. Even wind farms. Energy storage should be dense, and allow recharging quickly. Hydrogen meets those requirements to some degree. See the Honda FCX Clarity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_FCX_Clarity ), which does pretty well. Improvements will continue.
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August 16, 2012, 05:55:25 PM |
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I'm working on wind to hydrogen atm, it means a generator can be put up anywhere with out having to run cables to it plus it's useful for both motor and domestic power. Could do the same with solar but we get f' all sun here :/
I'm not a huge fan of wind. It seems the geographic footprint is high. To me, the best reduction in geographic footprint and land friendly energy production would be some combination of an offshore wind farm combined with tidal and wave power (which are fish friendly) combined with floating solar panels for the production of converting sea water to hydrogen.
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August 17, 2012, 09:21:07 AM |
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Compressed hydrogen is an excellent method for energy storage. Hydrogen fuel cells convert the hydrogen to electricity and produce water vapor as the exhaust.
Energy storage is important, but what about the other parts of energy? I think energy production and energy conservation are too often ignored. I'm not ignoring energy production. It should have the following qualities: - Renewable - Environmentally friendly Most have some tradeoffs and environmental issues. Even wind farms. Energy storage should be dense, and allow recharging quickly. Hydrogen meets those requirements to some degree. See the Honda FCX Clarity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_FCX_Clarity ), which does pretty well. Improvements will continue. Like said: Check: http://torrentz.eu/20a8bef3a8426c741f39d4a553a5792abf2c5e6ahttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1503769/
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August 17, 2012, 09:35:50 AM |
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Compressed hydrogen is an excellent method for energy storage. Hydrogen fuel cells convert the hydrogen to electricity and produce water vapor as the exhaust.
Energy storage is important, but what about the other parts of energy? I think energy production and energy conservation are too often ignored. I'm not ignoring energy production. It should have the following qualities: - Renewable - Environmentally friendly Most have some tradeoffs and environmental issues. Even wind farms. Energy storage should be dense, and allow recharging quickly. Hydrogen meets those requirements to some degree. See the Honda FCX Clarity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_FCX_Clarity ), which does pretty well. Improvements will continue. Like said: Check: http://torrentz.eu/20a8bef3a8426c741f39d4a553a5792abf2c5e6ahttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1503769/what's the point of watching
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August 17, 2012, 10:55:34 AM Last edit: August 17, 2012, 11:14:00 AM by Grouver (BtcBalance) |
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what's the point of watching
What's the point of posting this? The point of watching is that it's a nice docu and will inform you about some things regarding energy.
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August 17, 2012, 11:04:21 AM |
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what's the point of watching
What's the point of posting this? The point of watching is that it's a nice docu and will inform you about some things regarding energy. Looked to me like an econ documentary, but the two are so closely intertwined, I won't contest that statement.
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August 17, 2012, 02:33:51 PM Last edit: August 17, 2012, 03:31:43 PM by Timo Y |
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One of my biggest criticisms of mainstream environmentalism is that it often gets its priorities wrong because it fails to see the bigger picture. When it comes to automobiles, there far is too much attention going to the vehicle and not enough attention to the transport system as a whole. The automobile is just one cog in the industrial complex that is the modern transport system. This system consist not just of automobiles, but highway systems, refineries, gas stations, parking spaces, etc. but most importantly, the cities that are designed to accommodate cars. After 100 years and trillions of dollars spent on R+D, modern automobiles are already highly optimized, and are fast approaching fundamental limits. It is practically impossible to achieve a 10-fold efficiency improvement on a Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion or a Prius, at least not without paying a high penalty in price, complexity, comfort, useability and safety. Therefore, the focus should not be on building greener cars but on using them smarter. In my opinion, the lowest hanging fruit is city planning. A 10-fold decrease in energy consumption can be achieved by designing greener cities, and it doesn't require complex technology and resource depletion, just time and willpower. Hong Kong is a good proof of concept; it's no secret why it spends an order of magnitude less energy per capita on transport than North American cities. Unfortunately unlike car companies, cities are run by politicians, who have little stake in investing in long term improvements, but the problem will solve itself once the oil price hits $300. High energy cities will then start to become uncompetitive and lose population to low energy cities. Here is a sobering "bigger picture" analysis of green cars: http://www.withouthotair.com/download.htmlPS. I ride a bike around town not because I'm a green hipster but because it's convenient and economical.
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August 17, 2012, 03:27:27 PM |
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It is practically impossible to achieve a 10-fold efficiency improvement on a Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion or a Prius, at least not without paying a high penalty in price, complexity, comfort, useability and safety.
Volkswagen has nearly done it. No doubt there is room for improvement even on that model.
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August 18, 2012, 06:36:45 AM |
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what's the point of watching
What's the point of posting this? The point of watching is that it's a nice docu and will inform you about some things regarding energy. and i'll forget most of them like after watching it for the first or second time
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August 18, 2012, 07:15:22 AM |
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It is practically impossible to achieve a 10-fold efficiency improvement on a Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion or a Prius, at least not without paying a high penalty in price, complexity, comfort, useability and safety.
Volkswagen has nearly done it. No doubt there is room for improvement even on that model. why isn't that car available in America
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August 18, 2012, 04:02:29 PM |
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It is practically impossible to achieve a 10-fold efficiency improvement on a Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion or a Prius, at least not without paying a high penalty in price, complexity, comfort, useability and safety.
Volkswagen has nearly done it. No doubt there is room for improvement even on that model. why isn't that car available in America The XL1 is going to go into production, but in a limited number. The sad thing is, if it went into mass production, I believe the production costs could come down. As for America, well: - I always see posts (typically from Americans) stating the car is ugly. Idiots. People believe a car is ugly if it does not conform to what people expect a car to look like, which is defined by current trends. - There's a big machine out there collectively called "automobile fashion and sexiness and the marketing of" which goes a long way to influence the way people think. Sad.
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August 18, 2012, 04:23:16 PM |
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- I always see posts (typically from Americans) stating the car is ugly. Idiots. People believe a car is ugly if it does not conform to what people expect a car to look like, which is defined by current trends. I'm an American, and that car is smexy. Looks future-cool, not ugly. I did a google search expecting some smart-car looking abortion of a vehicle, and when this beauty popped up: I was happily surprised. Unless we're looking at different vehicles?
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August 18, 2012, 04:46:44 PM |
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- I always see posts (typically from Americans) stating the car is ugly. Idiots. People believe a car is ugly if it does not conform to what people expect a car to look like, which is defined by current trends. I'm an American, and that car is smexy. Looks future-cool, not ugly. I did a google search expecting some smart-car looking abortion of a vehicle, and when this beauty popped up: I was happily surprised. Unless we're looking at different vehicles? That's the car. I like it. But I've seen a lot of negative comments about its looks. Which is too bad, because we need to evolve to point where form follows function.
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