sci.energy

"Eeyore" wrote in message
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> The interesting thing about the 'powered roadway' idea is that it can be shown to work in
> isolation
> on short test tracks and the like. What is less well known are its inherent inefficiencies,
> limitations and losses that make it energy wasteful and difficult to use and of course building
> such
> an infrastructure would be massively wasteful of valuable resources.
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> It's not unlike maglev trains in some respects (technically do-able at great expense) but worse.
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Someone is proposing to distribute power to home electronics wirelessly,
even that is less that 50% efficient. I doubt Tesla got anywhere close to that.