Solar travel: Harnessing the sun for transport

✍ Scribed by George Marsh

• Book ID: 104438429
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 549 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1471-0846
• DOI: 10.1016/s1471-0846(01)80103-7

✦ Synopsis

Harnessing the Sun for Transport alar energy, already familiar in static applications like heating, powering small appliances and battery charging, is also being harnessed to the more dynamic problems of movement -over land, sea or in the air. Directly solar-powered transportation may be on the fringe at present, but it is holding out promise for reduced usage of fossil fuels, with consequent economic and environmental benefits. That promise is evidenced in a range of solarpowered vehicles from golf carts and rickshaws, through cycles and cars, to boats, ferries and aircraft. George Marsh explains how solar power may start to reduce reliance on conventional fuels in transport applications.