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My electric car has 28kwh of electrical storage. Along with massive numbers of new wind generators, we need a large fleet of electric vehicles to store this energy.
I built my electric car in a 2 stall garage in 6 months time. If we wait for the auto companies to solve this problem we are all going to die of lung cancer first.
Wind and solar combined with electric vehicles could go a long way to solving our energy problem. See my web site for a picture of my solar charge station.
http://www.zevutah.com/
(I went to your site)
KJD kudos, You impress me , big time. If you pull your mind together even more, you can really "pull it off" commercially in some fashion .. good luck man :-) Way to go.
Nice Gear, K!
I've got a couple of the KC-130 Panels as well, looking to get more. Outback and Xantrex.. those are still on my wish list. Good Equipment!
Bob
Add in high efficiency heat pumps and electricity can meet all our energy demands, let people buy a share of the renewable capacity as an investment / pension and you have a massive source of funding available.
And if you don't have KJD's mad skills, you can always buy the quite affordable and immediately available ZENN! We have been quite pleased with ours. It's no TESLA, but it gets us most places we need to go in the city (that we can't walk or bike to easily).
www.zenncars.com
And keep in mind that other methods to store wind energy are being developed by major players in the industry:
http://www.startribune.com/business/34372864.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEy...
One of the problems with electric power from renewables is storage. If batteries became, for all intents and purposes, lifetime batteries, how would that change the economics of wind, solar, etc?
That is, what if you didn't need to replace the batteries AND could get more from the batteries you have AND could buy old batteries that don't hold a charge well or at all?
How does this affect the economics and the EROEI (given no replacement of batteries)?
http://r-charge.com/index.html
Cheers