Well, first of all, let me contradict my subject. Solar power is not out completely. The only place I forsee solar power as being useful would be to run a charging station. The reason I am saying this is because I have built and raced 2 solar powered vehichle now. (where we placed 12th in SunRayce97, and 7th in SunRayce99, these are national collegate races). Solar power simply is just not efficient enough (only about 12-14%) If you want more efficient cells you are going to have to pay 2 arms and 2 legs for them. Then they will only reach upwards of 20% efficiency. Besides thier price, solar cells are extremely fragile, no matter what type up substrate they are laminated against. The large arrays required to generate the power needed to move a solar powerd passenger car is out of the question to fit on todays roads. Our racing vehicle had a 2 meter by 4 meter array, which generated around 1200 watts (enough to run my wifes hair dryer) While that is enought power for us to maintain speed of 60 mph, as a driver, I have to say, it's no joy ride. I'm 5'10" and barely had enough room to steer the rudder style stick. It's just not economical, and because of that solar powerd vechicles just won't be feasable.
I think it's our own fault that we get so much junk e-mail to begin with. The more we sign up to get e-mailings, the more our address get's out on other lists. If you really hate getting spam, then don't sign up for so many things to begin with. E-mail should be treated no differently than snail mail, IMOP, trying to get laws like this passed is a waste of government money.
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/dev/null`
\ h$ GREY>$NORMAL"
BOLD=`tput bold 2>
RED="\[\033[31m\]"
GREEN="\[\033[32m\]"
BLUE="\[\033[34;1m\]"
GREY="\[\033[1;30m\]"
PURPLE="\[\033[0;35m\]"
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Well, first of all, let me contradict my subject. Solar power is not out completely. The only place I forsee solar power as being useful would be to run a charging station. The reason I am saying this is because I have built and raced 2 solar powered vehichle now. (where we placed 12th in SunRayce97, and 7th in SunRayce99, these are national collegate races). Solar power simply is just not efficient enough (only about 12-14%) If you want more efficient cells you are going to have to pay 2 arms and 2 legs for them. Then they will only reach upwards of 20% efficiency. Besides thier price, solar cells are extremely fragile, no matter what type up substrate they are laminated against. The large arrays required to generate the power needed to move a solar powerd passenger car is out of the question to fit on todays roads. Our racing vehicle had a 2 meter by 4 meter array, which generated around 1200 watts (enough to run my wifes hair dryer) While that is enought power for us to maintain speed of 60 mph, as a driver, I have to say, it's no joy ride. I'm 5'10" and barely had enough room to steer the rudder style stick. It's just not economical, and because of that solar powerd vechicles just won't be feasable.
I think it's our own fault that we get so much junk e-mail to begin with. The more we sign up to get e-mailings, the more our address get's out on other lists. If you really hate getting spam, then don't sign up for so many things to begin with. E-mail should be treated no differently than snail mail, IMOP, trying to get laws like this passed is a waste of government money.