What does it do to the operating costs per mile? Are there numbers?
Does it recharge the vehicle while in motion?
Can the power be easily stolen?
Nuclear power to the highways, maybe around the corner.
Who would have thought that bumper car technology would be the answer?
There are also wireless power companies for the home.
Does this magnetic field sterilize humans? Make you grow bald? Increase your eyesight?
I have a tooth brush that does that. I am not impressed. It’s just an inefficient transformer.
That sure is a lot of “If it works,”.
Didn’t they do that with solar panels and other green energies as well.
None of them worked.
Ping.
If using your cell phone might cause tumors imagine what this might do. Wouldn’t you need some sort of filtering or lead shield to be safe?
The concept of efficiency must not have factored into their decision much, I don’t believe it could come close to a direct cable doing the charging.
I’ve got enough steel pieces blasted in me to set off a good metal detector, I don’t think I can get near a MRI machine now. I wonder if I’d feel this while crossing the road.
$2.7 million for this?
I could have done it for $50K, including digging up and repaving the street
I have an electric toothbrush that charges wirelessly. I guess I have "breakthrough technology" already in my toothbrush. /s LOL.
Seems like an expensive, inefficient way of power transfer to the bus. Gee, how about them electric buses and trains with the overhead power lines? Not the prettiest but they are all over the place and have a long history. Guess that’s just too old tech and wouldn’t attract wasteful spending of my taxes.
Probably not good for those wearing pacemakers.
And to think people worry about high voltage lines 50 feet over their heads. Now an EM field will be closer to you and your reproductive organs thanks to U of U and the federales.
The answer would be yes. Can the power be easily stolen?
Again the answer would be yes.
What they are not saying is the amount of energy it would take to generate an Electro/magnetic field large enough to actually charge the bus. The theory is simple, send a A/C current down a wire, it generates a electro/magnetic wave, this wave will then generate a current in any wire that finds itself in the field. This is the priciple that makes radios and TV transmission and reception possible.
However, sending radio waves to a reciever takes very little power, in relation to the amount it would take to generate enough current to actually charge batteries large enough to power a bus. Plus Radio(and TV)waves don't actually run the set, they are merely the signal that carries the voice and picture, the power to run the radio/TV comes from the good old wall plug.
Anyone who thinks this will actually lower power usage is fooling themselves. We will have to build many new Nuke plants in order to keep up with vehicles of this sort.
The technology to do this has been around for many, many years. Ask yourself why no one has actually put it into use before now.
A little more on the technology:
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=18116082
More power to them but I’m skeptical since this type of power transfer has been known for centuries and I don’t know of anything radically new about doing it. I’d like to see the proposal that was prepared to reqeust the funding.
Also, seems like private industry would have produced similiar products if they saw a profit in them.
one wonders about the effect this magnetic field would have on the health of people particularly the aged, the infirm, and the infants...
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Just wait. A bunch of ¨students¨ will claim the thing is frying their brains, then turn around and sue the feds. So the taxpayer gets screwed coming and going.
One (or more) of those gay guys wearing a metal ring around his/her/it's nether parts is in for a shock (no pun intended)....and a couple of little balls drop off.
(It's the induced electronagnetic field effect....causes heating.....for those in Rio Vista)