Re: new, and very, very ugly

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:09:59 -0700, in sci.electronics.design John
Larkin <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:41:59 +0200, Martin Griffith
<mart_in_medina@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 08:49:16 -0700 (PDT), in sci.electronics.design
MooseFET <kensmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 9, 10:47 pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.national.com/analog

I wonder if National will even notice the further reduction in the
odds that I will design in there parts.

I do hope that they did patent the "Solar magic" technology. I know
that somewhere in these news groups I published the basic design for
an adaptive solar powered charger that optimized the power from the
panel. My design had a lot of analog to it but converting that analog
to use something like a PIC to do the same function would be very
easy.


re solar.
Graph at the top of this blog looks interesting
http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/


martin

Nanosolar has spent about $170 million so far. It will be interesting
to see if their stuff ever gets commercial.

One big problem with solar is storage. A car that's half batteries
still has mediocre range and long recharge times.
Does that graph
assume a magical extension cord from the PV array to the car on the
freeway?

John



I do hope Nanosolar suceed

magical extension cord
No idea, tried to get to the source article, but they want money/login
to read it.


martin
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