John Fields wrote:
As far as electric vehicles goes, I think the idea of a non-plug-in charger is pure insanity.
I think so too, but an intriguing idea would be electric vehicles without pantographs, on roads equipped with wireless chargers under the surface. This would not be a viable replacement for conventional automobiles. But maybe it would work for something like an airport, in which many small automatic vehicles replace the automated subway and rail systems they have now, which are like horizontal elevators, with inflexible paths. It would be nice if one automatic car could stop at a gate while others zip by it. We could do this with battery electric cars of course. There might not be an advantage.
Perhaps it would work in a large city center with high population density, such as Manhattan. Only small, specially-made, fully electric passenger vehicles would be allowed. You would not need a charger under every meter of every road. You would not have to dig up every street in Manhattan! I suppose one every few blocks in an urban area might work. Sort of like cell phone towers.
I think the best use for it might be to power a million nano-machines that are working inside a vat, let us say, or inside a human body looking for cancerous cells.
- Jed
