the dream is still alive, and so am i (phew, rough year).
started off again with some simple websearching. and saw some unfinished email correspondence about this from just before the year from hell, so am trying to reconnect and re-engage. saw an interesting pagio porter electric conversion amid the searches ( winlow.co.uk/html/ev_conversion.html ). it seemed quite thorough. with perseverance, i might even be able to follow it as a guide (even though mine's a decade older). ~ various logistical challenges involved, that i've backspaced over realising that will spill endlessly into a lot of drivel about my life that's not all that interesting or relevant to e.v. n such. some of it gives me excuse for no progress on this yet, some of it necessitates fixes that encourage conversion.
the ol hijet's still been having its moments, needing parts and so on. so if it's in the age range of "classic cars" (it's about 27 years old) and all the maintenance requirements that entails, then i might as well be maintaining something worth maintaining, rather than feeling guilty for poisoning the environment while travelling in it, and poisoning myself while filling it up (who wants to huff fumes? not me), and feeling like a fool funding it with every inefficient petroleum mile.
i think it was 2004 i bought my roll-able solar "panel", when buckyball/nano-tubule tech was fresh on the market. same stuff that can make up solar paint. if the paint itself is still not a marketed product, i wonder how hard it would be to make my own. ... and yes, i do get a kick out of the kudos that'd present, making my own nano-technology. lol. a mere layer of paint would weigh far less than bulky attachments, could cover the surface area more efficiently catching the light more no matter the angle and having higher shallow angle efficiency, and wouldnt present any further drag, (edit: and even add an extra layer of protection? ~ idk, maybe not itself, but might need another protective varnish layer, same result, extra bonus protection for an ageing classic car). even if i dont get that far, i still like that even roll-out solar products attached would be less weight and drag than a larger voltaic rig chosen for the blunt stats of light-to-electricity efficiency per surface area, at optimal angle. which could still be chosen and used along with roll-up/paint taking up the gaps elsewhere.
i look at the regular paint on vehicles, and it bothers me. that space, wasted, when paint-on solar power technology has existed as a thing, and is in products, since at least 2004 (iirc).
anyway, i shant ramble on any more for now. just popped by to state the dream's alive, n here's to hoping 2018 doesnt kick me down like 2017 did.
a new mug exists in our house. on it reads words to the effect of:
when a man says he'll do something, he'll do it. you dont need to remind him every six months.
yep.
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