Our sun, a nuclear fusion source which is already working reliably for more than 5 billion years, produces an extreme amount of energy. Within 6 hours, deserts on Earth receive more solar energy than we use in a whole year globally. Why do we keep ignore this most power full energy source?
For the world energy demand (18.000 TWh) we need only a surface area of 188 x 188 square miles with Concentrated Solar Plants. This is a small thumbnail on the map of Africa. Germany has seen the light and is investing 500 billion euro's in Desertec. A CSP plant runs 24 x 7 hours on full power (even when the sun is away because it can store sun heat in molten salt). These CSP plants can easily replace nuclear and coal power plants.
Which is why it probably won't happen. The auto companies have to protect their 500% markup on OEM parts, after all.
Why is that? The current (single) battery in any car is already standardized (form factor and voltage) and can be switched easily, why not introduce these standards for full battery packs?
One could imagine a standard battery pack standard for small, medium and large cars. Another option would be that smal cars needs a single battery pack, and larger cars need more.
Similar to small batteries like AAA, AA, D, etc...Some devices only need one battery, some need 8 batteries.
I would suggest to look at Agile Software Development and planning tools. These are lightweight and highly effective, especially in constant changing environments (read requirements).
On the Renewable Energy website OliNo there is an article Test results small wind turbines website with some more background on this test. The first test results show that a PV system (Solar Energy) is more cost effective than these small windturbines.
The Dutch article, which is more up-to-date, show also the last measurement results of the windturbines (11 months of data). The conclusion is the same.
However, it was found out, that an official wind measurement station of the KNMI only 14 kilometers (8.8 miles) away form the test site has an average windspeed which is twice of of the test field. This could explain the low yield of the windturbines.
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Our sun, a nuclear fusion source which is already working reliably for more than 5 billion years, produces an extreme amount of energy. Within 6 hours, deserts on Earth receive more solar energy than we use in a whole year globally. Why do we keep ignore this most power full energy source? For the world energy demand (18.000 TWh) we need only a surface area of 188 x 188 square miles with Concentrated Solar Plants. This is a small thumbnail on the map of Africa. Germany has seen the light and is investing 500 billion euro's in Desertec. A CSP plant runs 24 x 7 hours on full power (even when the sun is away because it can store sun heat in molten salt). These CSP plants can easily replace nuclear and coal power plants.
Which is why it probably won't happen. The auto companies have to protect their 500% markup on OEM parts, after all.
Why is that? The current (single) battery in any car is already standardized (form factor and voltage) and can be switched easily, why not introduce these standards for full battery packs?
One could imagine a standard battery pack standard for small, medium and large cars. Another option would be that smal cars needs a single battery pack, and larger cars need more. Similar to small batteries like AAA, AA, D, etc...Some devices only need one battery, some need 8 batteries.
I have good experience with Scrumworks for planning the development work using Scrum, Trac for PR/CR management and Subversion for source control.
I would suggest to look at Agile Software Development and planning tools. These are lightweight and highly effective, especially in constant changing environments (read requirements).
On the Renewable Energy website OliNo there is an article Test results small wind turbines website with some more background on this test. The first test results show that a PV system (Solar Energy) is more cost effective than these small windturbines. The Dutch article, which is more up-to-date, show also the last measurement results of the windturbines (11 months of data). The conclusion is the same. However, it was found out, that an official wind measurement station of the KNMI only 14 kilometers (8.8 miles) away form the test site has an average windspeed which is twice of of the test field. This could explain the low yield of the windturbines.