Ah, think about your battery powered drill. Use a second battery pack to charge during the day and swap out for the next day. Or just dump its energy into the car's pack when you get home.
Apparently, it must be against the law to use any surface but the car's to generate its solar energy! ; ) A typical garage (22' x 22') with a south facing shed style roof is approximately 54 square meters. Plugging that into your formula gives 40500 watt/hrs produced, nearly 10X what your formula says is needed. The only thing holding it back is the storage capability of the car. With suitable storage we can do this now!
BTW, insulation refers to the slowing down of heat transfer. The word representing the amount of solar radiation on a surface is insolation. Otherwise, thanks for attempting to quantify the subject, most people (on both sides) just go off half cocked.
You are very right, unfortunately. Even compressed in metal tanks the hydrogen will slowly seep through the metal matrix and cause it to become brittle. This is a major obstacle in a 'hydrogen economy': how to store and transport something that eventually ruins the container/pipe it's in.
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Ah, think about your battery powered drill. Use a second battery pack to charge during the day and swap out for the next day. Or just dump its energy into the car's pack when you get home.
Apparently, it must be against the law to use any surface but the car's to generate its solar energy! ; ) A typical garage (22' x 22') with a south facing shed style roof is approximately 54 square meters. Plugging that into your formula gives 40500 watt/hrs produced, nearly 10X what your formula says is needed. The only thing holding it back is the storage capability of the car. With suitable storage we can do this now! BTW, insulation refers to the slowing down of heat transfer. The word representing the amount of solar radiation on a surface is insolation. Otherwise, thanks for attempting to quantify the subject, most people (on both sides) just go off half cocked.
You are very right, unfortunately. Even compressed in metal tanks the hydrogen will slowly seep through the metal matrix and cause it to become brittle. This is a major obstacle in a 'hydrogen economy': how to store and transport something that eventually ruins the container/pipe it's in.