Theo Verelst Local Diary Page 108
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Feb 1, 18:05, 2012
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German solar panel count
Appears to be such that the whole of the dutch need for electricity
in
terms of yearly volume can be covered, so holland could have
complete
ecological electricity for 100% if they'd buy up all germa pannels
or
the electricity from them (29 Giga watts per year, I suppose the
information means the average use of watts over a year, which means
in
turn that about 20+ million people use about a kilo Watt constantly
on
average).
In a dutch
paper, it was concluded that as a consequence, dutch
electricity
becomes cheaper during daytime....
Of course solar pannels will have to be accompanied by significant
electricity or other energy storage possibilities to have the lights
on
at night!
Of course a lot more energy would still be needed to heat houses and
buildings, for the industry for the part not fed by electricity, and
for
The contemporary Electric Car
Are there any? Yep, apart from, if we must believe the important
Brittish show Top Gear, horrid creations like the GeeWizz, there are
actual electric cars which are usable for sale and lease at this
moment.
I'd like one of these, please, and preferably about 20 square meter
of
subsidized solar pannel and a stock of appropriate silicon tires to
go
with it:
(source: my audi magazine has
this
picture I found on the internet, I hope this is fair use (OTOH it is
free advertisement..))
Of course, especially concerning at the moment I don't even receive
any
income at all, this is probably stil on the expensive side, even for
university electrical engineers. I'm sure driving a Tesla in
California
is a cool option, too.
This is partly cool, too:
In fact there in Amsterdam exists a kin of a rentlal club where you
can
pick one of those of 300 for a few tens per hour and drive them
within
the city perimeter without further costs, no parking costs anywhere
and
no maintenance. Oh I forgot to mention, the above website
configurator
does NOT yet have an option for "engine:
electric"....
I saw second hand smart-like cars from Mitsubishu for about 35
thousand
Euro, weighing about a ton, and appearently cool. I think these will
go
a little over 100km for sure on a full charge and can be charged up
in
somewhere between 5 to 10 hours on a normal outlet, possibly twice
as
fast or even better at a 400 Volt connection.
Of course the accu packs in these cars are an important part:
probably
the main cost factor when "broken" or worn out (though the good
manufacturers say they'll last 10 years with "normal use") and also
these could be interesting for complete ecological energy provision:
the few tens of kilowatt-hours of energy stored in these vehicles
can
easily buffer a normal households nightly energy needs ...
Addendum: While taking some
time to get the rest of this page done, I read the latest Audi
magazine, and found out there are more electric Audis with desirable
properties scheduled, even a hybrid type of A8, with serious,
relatively small accupack and electro (help-) motor. Of course it
makes
sense that my sort of favorite (larger than average) car type with
(long ago) rally past is considered heavier than the smaller
electric
cars, and has a large enough "normal" engine to propel it, with in
addition a more "green" electric motor, and serious but small range
and
low power (compared to the fuel guzzler) battery-pack.
Raspberry Pi
What a story of moderate behavior of electronics companies it is
already! The RP is a small Linux board with HDMI monitor connection
running a ARM CPU with usb connections and ethernet and a flash card
to
store the OS and all kinds of applications. There's Fedora for it,
running a web browser, drawing program (GIMP) , editor, all kinds of
stuff, and it's cheap, target price $35 with ethernet.
The Asus EEEpad, any fun ?
Even though I myself use the big computer more for browsing and
such,
it appears to be and I think some of the applications are even
pretty
cool, like the Google Sky program which works with the compass, GPS
and
the tilt sensors
compiler
How's the FPGA? It's 32 bit computer system now