Power Your Car from the Sun

You think the cars in that challenge are anything like an EV? For starters, challenge vehicles weigh 4-10 times less than an average EV.

How much of the solar challenge is driven at night?

SMH.

 

I guess I got that one wrong. My apologies to @Bowerbird

 

Great! This is the most scientific post I’ve seen from you.

Earlier you said that “leakage is manageable”. I would hope, that through this effort, you now understand that NO LEAKAGE IS ACCEPTABLE. There’s a reason that previous link stated that Ireland and the US are not happy with the situation. Let me take this one step further with something from the NRC.

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/radwaste.html

High-level wastes are hazardous because they produce fatal radiation doses during short periods of direct exposure. For example, 10 years after removal from a reactor, the surface dose rate for a typical spent fuel assembly exceeds 10,000 rem/hour – far greater than the fatal whole-body dose for humans of about 500 rem received all at once. If isotopes from these high-level wastes get into groundwater or rivers, they may enter food chains. The dose produced through this indirect exposure would be much smaller than a direct-exposure dose, but a much larger population could be exposed.

I will also note here that the cleanup of the THREE radioactive cores at Fukushima has NOT even started. If a person were directly exposed to those cores, they would die within a minute.

The world thinks of Fukushima as a historical disaster. It hasn’t even begun.

 

That’s just unfortunate hysteria.

 

Lols! Says you! I can see that you have never bothered to actually read the links. The innovations that have come from this are not all purely solar related. 3,000k no recharging, on solar alone. Each year the benchmark for entry and innovation is moved higher. Also this is mostly an amateur event. This isn’t the big auto companies (although, they do pay attention) this is university students and volunteers

https://cosmosmagazine.com/technolo...s-emerged-from-the-world-solar-car-challenge/

A lot of innovations have already been incorporated into conventional designs of EVs.

 

Lots of bloviating in that link but not much else.

 

Of course, I know all about it. It's been going on for something like 40 years. Big deal.

All @kazenatsu was pointing out was the limitations of solar panels in KW (properly pronounced kilowatts, as in an amount electrical power). Your post talks about KM (as in kilometers, as in a distance).

You're not even in the same cosmic plane as he is.

And now you're doubling down on wrong and proving once again, you really don't know what you're talking about.

 

Solar has plenty of power to power one’s home and vehicles, and at the same time, positively aid our nation’s electric grid. This link discusses four realistic options. And yes they are practical. I can affirmatively state that, because I employ one of them. The link goes into more detail, but the cited paragraph provides a good overall summary.

https://www.wri.org/insights/4-emerging-ways-pair-electric-vehicles-and-renewable-energy

Acknowledging this, several utilities, automakers, cities and EV chargingproviders across the U.S. are rolling out new pilot programs and services that allowresidential and commercial customers touse renewable energy for their EVselectricity needs, and charge at times thathelp integrate more renewable energy sources on the grid.

 

Again, has nothing to do with that stupid race.

 

Perhaps you had better look at the topic of the thread. Both topics are relative.

 

Good luck all. I’m moving to Reddit. Too many shills on here.