Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Nexagen
That's a good point... If that is the case why not buy a small foldable solar panel and mount it on your cars dash then have it charge the battery. This and the alternator would provide enough electricity for the battery to not drain out.
The solar panel can then have the wires run to the battery.
|
By the time you've split hydrogen from water and burnt it again to provide shaft power, you'll be getting back about 10% of the energy you put in as electricity.
That and the process is too slow to run a car (unless you've got an electrolysis plant the size of your house).
Plugging the solar panel right into an electric motor hooked to your driveshaft would be much more efficient. But the gains from that will still be pitiful.
You'll get at the most 500 watts from a square meter of solar panel. You car needs probably 15,000 watts to maintain 100km/h on a level road.