Group: sci.energy
From: Eeyore
Date: Monday, September 03, 2007 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: Electric Farm Tractors



Eric Gisin wrote:

> "Eeyore" wrote
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > It's not unlike maglev trains in some respects (technically do-able at great expense) but worse.
>
> Someone is proposing to distribute power to home electronics wirelessly,

No they aren't.

Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers (sorry comics).

Graham