Old 06-13-10, 03:42 PM
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The solar cells basically are coated on a lightweight roof that I've attached to a test bicycle. With them alone, it only goes 15 mph, so it's not going to "revolutionize" transport. Plus, it's pretty expensive, like $1200. To get enough to go 30 on a moped would require something like $3000 worth of cells and a pretty dang big roof - in other words, it's just not happening. In a car? Yeah, forget it.

When you say motorized transport, what do you mean? Do you mean something petrol based (Like a car, bus, train, airplane, etc.)? The reason why I'm doing this is because my transportation is independent from oil, and this is a declaration that I need not a drop of some oil-derivative (diesel, gasoline, propane, etc.) to get across the United States.
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