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To: allatwwk who wrote (23279)	7/8/2008 1:39:24 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 25522

What your are missing from your arguments is who is going to pay to convert all the parking lots that today have cars baking in the sun with covered lots with expensive solar collectors? You going to elect Obama and force all US companies to do it before the decade ends? IT may explain why the market is in the crapper...

To: allatwwk who wrote (23279)	7/8/2008 1:42:29 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Guys, solar cells on cars just don't make economic sense. To power the car? Clearly not. Your right on this one. To power the A/C, maybe they do. When you would need it the most would be the time when the sun is shining on the car. I'm not saying that it necessarily does make sense, but it might, esp. if the A/C has a very efficient low power mode that it would automatically go in to under these circumstances. Another alternative, which would use less power, is to just power a fan to cool the car so that its close to outside ambient temperature. Sure if its 90 degrees outside it might still be 100 in the car, but that's better than 140+. Mazda and Saab offered such a system as an option. Mazda doesn't anymore, I'm not sure about Saab. It would probably make more sense now with advances in solar cells.

To: allatwwk who wrote (23279)	7/9/2008 11:57:18 PM
From: etchmeister	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

You guys have convinced me of one thing. Even if solar cells on a Prius is not an efficient way to use solar power, it does pass the 'marketing' test. If people buy these for whatever reason, its good business. Yeah right - the US of A has zero concept about energy consumption - gas guzzlers are now making a difference while inventories of gas guzzling SUV are getting bloated - sell those SUV at huge discount telling people how much gas it would buy . Increasing price of gas is probably only the first stage before the US figures out how much energy is wasted - waste is OK as long as it is cheap but it will change