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saharah — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:04:04 +0000

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Thank you for your support | ChristopherKeelty.com — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:26:41 +0000

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Comment on $4375!! by Dr. Ben

Dr. Ben — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:28:15 +0000

Hi Gabriel –

Thanks for your post and your ideas!

It would be a dream to have an electric vehicle completely powered by solar panels. Sadly, for most vehicles, and particularly large, heavy vehicles like busses, this is not yet possible. For now the best bet for the BioBus is sticking to the waste vegetable oil that powers our Diesel engine.

Why wouldn’t our solar bus work? Well, we need a motor that can produce 300 horse power, which is equal to to 223 kilowatts. Our current solar panels take up one third of the space on our roof and produce 300 watts in full sun. So in order to drive the bus with solar panels, you would need nearly 1000 times as many solar panels on the roof as we now have, which wouldn’t even fit!

But what if we got more efficient solar panels? Sadly, we’re still stuck. The sun’s light transmit 1.4 kilowatts per square meter on the surface of the earth. Even if our solar panels were 100% efficient and could convert that solar power perfectly into 1.4 kilowatts per square meter of electrical energy, and we covered the entire roof of the BioBus with these perfectly efficient panels, we’d still max out at 42 kilowatts, less than a fifth of the 223 kilowatts needed to drive the bus.

But there is hope! Check out this wikipedia article for lot’s of inspiring examples.

Comment on $4375!! by Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:20:20 +0000

How about converting it to a pure electric bus. Might cost less to install a good electric motor and nickel sodium chloride battery’s and bigger and more efficient solar panels.

Comment on Microscope Madness at World Science Fest! by World Science Festival « BioBus

World Science Festival « BioBus — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:07:41 +0000

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