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To: thackney

Personally I would like to see the car body itself a solar cell but would not appear as so, it can be painted with a certain paint to simulate colors or graphics, just the car sitting in a car lot, shopping mall lot, at work or at home it can charge into a local grid.


19 posted on 11/28/2007 5:11:55 AM PST by Eye of Unk
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To: Eye of Unk

Painting over a solar cell is going to block the light used to power the solar cell.


20 posted on 11/28/2007 5:12:56 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Eye of Unk
I would like to see the car body itself a solar cell

The amount of energy captured would be negligible. In full sunlight the best available solar panels now, sized to cover a car, would only deliver a few hundred watts and even at 100% efficiency could not produce more than a couple of thousand watts, so it would take weeks to fully charge a car's batteries that way. Even parking all day in full sunlight would not add more than a couple of miles to the vehicle's range.

50 posted on 11/28/2007 6:20:18 AM PST by Squawk 8888 (Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
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