Car and Housepower

How about those half-electric cars? You know, they run on electricity
and use a small internal combustion (8hp) engine to keep the batteries
charged as need be. Let's take the next step. We know the current
energy use patterns are ruining the environment and they are not really
sustainable because of finite resources. Let's use these same type of
car designs for a dual use called "housepower."
The cars are charging batteries as needed and run off these same
batteries. They're not as fast as conventional cars, but get terrific
gas mileage. They have large banks of batteries, or just exactly what
is required to power inverters. Inverters make 110 volt alternating
current electricity from 12 volt direct current which is what comes out
of a battery. When we pull in our driveway with these half-electric
cars, let's plug the batteries into our house, and use inverters to use
the battery power from the car as alternating current for the house.
We can use a computer type control to start the car engine (8hp) as
necessary to charge batteries, but here we introduce the real money
making part of this concept. When we hook the house cables to the car
batteries, we hook the car exhaust to a heat exchange device to collect
the 75% of the power that is normally wasted as heat by the internal
combustion engine and make hot water for either potable water use or
for hot water heating. This engine does not run all the time, only as
needed to keep the batteries charged. That part of the design is in the
half-electric cars design, because they are made to primarily run off of
the battery power source. This combination replaces most of the energy
we are purchasing from the status quo of big energy, so you can expect
the proposal to meet with ridicule and a super well-financed opposition
in the form of a negative media storm.
Allow me to repeat myself. Let's use the vehicles that we use for
transportation as a dual resource. The vehicles are a power platform.
Let's use the power platform as our power source when we are at home,
and switch to status quo utilities when we are at work and for backup.
This is now technology, not futuristic. This method is sustainable.
This method reduces pollution. This method would save individuals
money. This method makes a new industry with an international market.
This method makes local jobs, no matter where it is implemented. Those
jobs are heat exchangers, inverters, controls, and the local construction
labor, and this list is by no means all-inclusive. Most importantly,
this impacts the current "big energy" monopolists and their political
allies so negatively that a rabid campaign against it's implementation
is a certainty. Digest the realities and let's get our collective asses
in gear and "do it."
These battery packs can also be charged by solar photovoltaic cells
or windmills, so the possibility of being able to disconnect from the
conventional power grid completely is an alternative. You don't suppose
that our "big energy" giants have already implemented plans to try to
prevent such an occurence, do you? That is why they like to buy cheap
politicians. They're just trying to protect their economic interests,
but their economic interests may not be compatible with the people's, or
should I say, voter's interests. "Big Energy" is corporate. Corporate
doesn't vote directly because fictitious entities can't vote, but they
can afford to buy politicians. That may be better than being able to
vote. Let's identify a few fictitious entities. That would be Exxon/
Mobil, JP Mmorgan Chase, GE, Halliburton, Enron, Texaco/Chevron, etc.,
and more too numerous to mention. Do these entities own and politicians
in your neighborhood? Is there any oil in Iraq? Do you feel something
slipping?