Talk:Photovoltaics in transport

message: Four points:
1. The start is not the finish.  How valuable would it be to have suppress the Wright Brothers' flight because it did not carry passengers?  Sharing ideas reinforces other ideas.  Some ideas may eventually burst into action and change the world.  A flight of a hundred feet mushrooms into mobility across the world in a day.
2. There is a synergy between the distributed nature of the transportation network and the distributed availability of sunshine.  By mounting collectors 4.8 to 8 feet wide entire networks can be energy neutral.  The 26.7 Quads (Quadrillion BTU's, 10^15 BTU's, Lawrence Livermore Labs) currently needed for transportation can be cut to 6 Quads.
::Can you provide a reference for this? How much energy would be saved if 100 million cars had solar panels? 199.125.109.113 02:43, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purpose 

message: I was planning to edit or delete the PRT section, but after thinking about the article more, I don't understand the purpose for this article at all.  Basically it seems that any mode of transportation that CAN use electricity for any aspect of its operation will be listed here.  Some companies make solar powered security cameras and since trains can easily handle such cameras, THAT qualifies a transport-related PV use.  Is there a single transportation mode that DOES not qualify for "Photovoltaics in transport"?  I guess horse back, unless the lights in the stable are powered by PVs.
Regarding PRT, it's the only one that hasn't left the station yet, so it should probably be deleted first.  But I really hate to edit that part when the rest of the article is so lacking in merit.
--JJLatWiki 21:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The point of the article is not to select those modes of transport(ation) for which PV might theoretically be applied and which not.  That would be useless.  It is to illustrate in what way PV does or might in future find a use in various modes of transport.  As I infer from your criticism it's not clear what particular aspect of PV would make it of value.  I'll edit to emphasize the particular usefulness in transport.  For sure, to stretch the article to include the most trivial, the solar camel  and the solar horse trough  would need to be included.
--Oldboltonian 18:43, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:   Thanks Oldboltonian, for the response.  I guess what I was hoping for was an explanation for why the article belongs in an encyclopedia, not why PVs are useful.  If you didn't notice, I've proposed merging and shrinking the information in this article into photovoltaics.  Would you mind throwing in your $0.02 there?  --JJLatWiki 21:28, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would recommend keeping as a separate article. Once you flush it out with photos it becomes too big to combine into the photovoltaics article, which is already too big. 199.125.109.129 05:24, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree with what has been said by 199.125... and would recommend keeping this as a separate article. -- Johnfos 05:54, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the point of this article? 

message: Oldboltonian (talk) 14:57, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Solar vehicles