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PhysOrg | Wireless power could revolutionize highway transportation, researchers say

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A Stanford University research team has designed a high-efficiency charging system that uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. The long-term goal of the research is to develop an all-electric highway that wirelessly charges cars and trucks as they cruise down the road.
Have to wonder about the infrastructure, esp the maintenance, costs
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Typhoon wrote:PhysOrg | Wireless power could revolutionize highway transportation, researchers say

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A Stanford University research team has designed a high-efficiency charging system that uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. The long-term goal of the research is to develop an all-electric highway that wirelessly charges cars and trucks as they cruise down the road.
Have to wonder about the infrastructure, esp the maintenance, costs
It's an interesting idea.
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Enki wrote:
Typhoon wrote:PhysOrg | Wireless power could revolutionize highway transportation, researchers say

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A Stanford University research team has designed a high-efficiency charging system that uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. The long-term goal of the research is to develop an all-electric highway that wirelessly charges cars and trucks as they cruise down the road.
Have to wonder about the infrastructure, esp the maintenance, costs
It's an interesting idea.
Very interesting..... looks like one of those projects no one wants to spend their own money on, but someone will opt to spend other people's money on it.

In the right location..... such as a long downhill on an interstate... it could save brakepads.... and feedsome energy back to the grid or a local user.

Cost effective...... probably not now...... but if someone in power decided to make "the price of energy skyrocket....."
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here ya go... mandate that big ass magnets are required on all vehicles, build steeper declines into our interstates, and capture that lost energy that otherwise goes into brake pad disintegration.
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Very cool. I bet my nephew would be very interested, but perhaps I shouldn't show it to him. I liked the Québécois country music.
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Azrael wrote: . . .
Very cool. I bet my nephew would be very interested, but perhaps I shouldn't show it to him. I liked the Québécois country music.
I was wondering about the music, if it was Cajun.
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Typhoon wrote:
Azrael wrote: . . .
Very cool. I bet my nephew would be very interested, but perhaps I shouldn't show it to him. I liked the Québécois country music.
I was wondering about the music, if it was Cajun.
I suspect that the music is from Quebec, rather than Cajun country, since Transport Jacques Auger is based in Quebec. I'm certainly not the best person to ask.
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Antipatros wrote:Antonov 225 Arriving in Calgary March 13 2012

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too cool! prior to wathing this I was impressed that an A-10 Warthog was able to stay airborne at what seems like 30 mph.
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Antipatros wrote:Antonov 225 Arriving in Calgary March 13 2012

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too cool! prior to wathing this I was impressed that an A-10 Warthog was able to stay airborne at what seems like 30 mph.
I didn't get to see the Antonov myself, and it only comes in here every few years (principally to ferry oil and gas equipment to other continents, in this case Africa). The current* main runway at YYC is 12,600 feet, and apparently it took the whole thing to get that pig of an aircraft airborne again.

*14,000 ft. runway is in the works.
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Azrael wrote:
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Azrael wrote: . . .
Very cool. I bet my nephew would be very interested, but perhaps I shouldn't show it to him. I liked the Québécois country music.
I was wondering about the music, if it was Cajun.
I suspect that the music is from Quebec, rather than Cajun country, since Transport Jacques Auger is based in Quebec. I'm certainly not the best person to ask.
I think Antipatros and you got it right.
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