solarquest/workshops

1. Can Podcars be Driven by Solar Energy?The Podcar City, Uppsala, Sweden Ron Swenson October 2, 2007 www.solarquest.com/workshops

2. Our Generation’s Challenges The 21st century’s twin challenges are: • Global Warming (known and manifest) • Peak Oil (little known but imminent).

3. Global Warming Fires in Congo & Angola

4. Peak Oil

5. Two Ways to Respond… • Germany, Japan, Sweden • Solar Energy • Hybrid Vehicles • Quit use of oil by 2020 • USA • Attack Iraq • Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR oil) • 25 x ‘25 … the rape of Soil and Ancient Water cloaked with environmental rhetoric

6. Which way will prevail? • “The American way of life is not negotiable.” [G H W Bush, 1992] • Check with the people of New Orleans for more details …. • Can we change course in time to avoid catastrophe?

7. Swenson’s Law To avoid deprivation resulting from the exhaustion of non-renewable resources, humanity must employ conservation and renewable resource substitutes sufficient to match depletion. www.OilCrisis.com/Swenson

8. Beating oil addiction with fraud • New Generation Vehicle (Clinton) • Hydrogen Highway (Schwarzenegger) • Cellulosic Ethanol (G W Bush)

9. Clean Coal? Pathological Disconnect

10. So what about Corn Cars & Bean Buses?

11. Net Production of Biomass in the USA www.oilcrisis.com/Patzek

12. Compare PV to Biofuels

13. So what about Hydrogen? Am I missing something?! Energy Return on Energy Invested < ½

14. What do the “experts” say? “Active solar power ... works, though not nearly as well as fossil fuel… “Alternative energy sources ... are … implausible … without the subsidy of oil. The only remaining alternative is nuclear energy.” James Howard Kunstler www.HubbertPeak.com/nuclear

15. Global Solar Energy Balance www.hubbertPeak.com/debate/oilcalcs.htm

16. Total Area Required for a PV Power Plant to Produce the Total US Electrical Demand www.ecotopia.com/Apollo2

17. Internal Combustion … • Take 26.5 Quads of oil • Turn 21.2 into smoke • Use 5.3 to run things … How incredibly wasteful!?

18. So what are we going to do? Basky

19. The All-New DonCar! www.OilCrisis.com/Transport

20. Sustainable Transportation • Not cars • Not airplanes • Walking, Horses, Bikes, Sailboats … and Podcars

21. Freeway at Capacity

22. Vehicles Removed

23. PRT Passengers

24. PRT System

25. So what about EVs or Electric Rail?

26. Parasitic Mass

27. Transportation Energy for 100 People

28. not to mention the numerous farmers now employed in growing hay for horses.[B]oat builders would suffer and towline, whip, and harness makers would be left destitute. Martin van Buren, Governor of New York, April 1832... • not to mention the numerous farmers now employed in growing hay for horses.[B]oat builders would suffer and towline, whip, and harness makers would be left destitute. Martin van Buren, Governor of New York, April 1832... A Little Personal History… If canal boats are supplanted by railroads, serious unemployment will result … If canal boats are supplanted by railroads, serious unemployment will result … ...not to mention the numerous farmers now employed in growing hay for horses. Van Buren 1832 8th President 1837-1841 ...not to mention the numerous farmers now employed in growing hay for horses. Van Buren 1832 8th President 1837-1841

29. Tonatiuh www.Ecotopia.com/Tonatiuh

30. Solar on Rail www.SolarEvolution.com/SkyTran

31. SkyTran Solar Solar SkyTran, with aesthetics emphasis and added power at stations

32. SolarEvolution Solar on Rail www.SolarEvolution.com/PRT

33. ElectroRoof

34. Similar Solar Systems Exist

35. Calculate Solar size, cost per Mile

36. Compare Solar to Gasoline at $2.50/gallon www.SolarEvolution.com/PRT

37. Traffic Nearly Matches Solar Generation

38. Thermodynamics of PV • EROI: 5 years • Life: 50 years

41. 120,000 TW of solar energy received by the Earth www.ecotopia.com/Apollo2

42. Miles of PRT/Miles of Solar www.jpods.com/HomeSolar.html

43. Exajoules of Solar PRT

44. www.Solarevolution.com