Are there any machines that will air condition your car without keeping the engine running?

Question

Is there a device that operates off a second battery and perhaps solar power?

Some jobs require sitting in your car when the weather is hot. Normally you wouldn't want to keep your engine running to keep the air conditioning going.

There is a solar powered device that helps to remove hot air from your auto while it is parked, but this is insufficient to cool a car while someone is sitting in it.

I've seen air conditioning units on top of campers. But, I think those depend on an outside power source. Are there any like that which can run on solar power and a second battery?

How do I look this up in search engines? Any ideas?

Answer 1

Air conditioning draws a huge amount of power - don't think a solar device could handle it unless it was as big as a house. Campers with a.c. rely on a separate generator running on gasoline to power their a.c. and other electric accessories. Parking in the shade is about your only solution.

Answer 2

I'll begin my answer long before yours, because it's crucial information that is often overlooked. The story begins outside of Europe, long before Rome, before the Pyramids were build, in a place that has been called the Fertile Crescent. In this region agriculture made it's first appearance, due to it's location on the shores of the Mediterranean it had easy access to all the cultures in Europe and from there agriculture spread into the European mainland, far earlier then it did in Africa. Agriculture provided more food then hunting and gathering and caused a quicker demographic growth. More people, thus more potential inventors and more potential philosophers. This simple advancement gave Europe the needed push forward and thus making Belgium the nation that colonized the Congo and not Congo that colonized Belgium. Now, we move back to the Renaissance, the cradle of modern Europe. The Europeans had never been more advanced regarding Asia and the European nations had been sitting in their puny continent fighting each other almost constantly. But that began to change: new idea's arose. The small continent developed new ways of approaching science, from then on it was over with speculating whether a heavy ball would speed up more during a fall then a light one and then taking ancient scriptures for granted as answer after the nice chat by an expensive cup of tea. Now the scientist got an idea and proved or disproved it with an experiment. Authors wrote the new ideology down in many books, which were read and reread. Nature was no longer the holy thing that needed to be treated with care, but a slave to humanity to be used at will. God's power was given to the human, the anthropocentric worldview. Not long after the new idea's were implemented the small European continent began accumulating it's wealth and progress. The people began to gain interest in new discoveries they looked over their borders, it was time that Europe would take matters in her own hands, be gone Muslim monopoly on spice trade, be gone intellectual supremacy of China. The small nations set up colonies around the globe in the hope of gaining some more power. Potestas, previously only known as political power was now the power over people and slaves. The New World surrendered to the Spanish because they thought these white people were gods, imagine the ego boost this would give the Europeans when taken out of it's original context. With much enthusiasm trading companies of the large sea nations, like Portugal, the Netherlands and England begin settling on the islands of Asia, but the Asian empires are still too strong and they don't allow the European to go much further then the coasts. Don't forget that these Asian kingdoms have their own guns, which are not as sophisticated as European guns but still dangerous en masse, and there are many potential soldiers in Asia. Then we get to the 18hundreds. The tide turns, the first and second industrial revolution leave their mark on Europe, the production increases, the possibilities grow. Now that the Europeans can build armored steamers the once powerful Chinese fleet is doomed, quick firing long range guns overshadow their Asian counterparts completely, forts are obsolete. Asia falls. In Africa, during the colonization of the Congo, Leopold II's men don't meet much resistance, the slave trade destroyed the fabric of their society and the Kingdoms are rotten to their cores. More to the south where the slave traders didn't go colonization is difficult there is an organised defense that is well supplied with fine European rifles, the rifles come from another colonial power, but no-one is willing to sell them a large supply of ammo. Africa is partitioned. But long before this even before the Magna Charta there existed African nations with constitutions, elections and limited monarchies. Japan is another story, they are impressed by Europe and after a long time of doubt it is decided: Japan must become an European nation, they embrace the west and industrialize in the late 18hundreds. They even join the club of imperialist European nations. In fact Europe can only call itself the master race in one aspect: music. True, there has been music in every culture, but only in Medieval Europe it became polyphonic. This invention gave birth to all the modern music we hear today.