I think you may have meant getting power *off* the roadway system (for
anyone to use). The additional intelligence in load cells, etc. and LED
displays seemed incidental but perhaps worth including if you are going
to put all those electronics in to manage the solar power generation
anyway. I didn't see anything about vehicles capturing power from the
road in the video btw.
Personally I'd like to see the system power mass transit perhaps putting
solar cells between rails. You wouldn't need to invert it to drive mag
lev units too. I bet on average trains block out a lower percentage of
the railroad bed as they pass over too.
Tons of engineering problems either way that could keep some in the
profession busy for a while! Keep going I say!
My 2 c
Thanks
Robert C
On 9/20/10 7:20 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Uh. Except. For ...
Getting power to the roadway system (*huge* infrastructure issue,
that, all by itself); providing load balanced power to this marvelous
new electrified road grid, as travel flux dictates; designing,
manufacturing, and implementing a road grid-to-vehicle power transfer
system that operates reliably under mass transit conditions; etc. etc.
etc.
Yep, once those little issues are licked we'll have our transportation
infrastructure issues whipped into shape. You betcha.
--Doug
(You know, I sometimes almost find myself thinking back upon those
days -- well, 11 years actually -- of total immersion into academia
and the academic life style [translated: completely decoupled from
reality] with a certain fondness.
I usually recover fairly quickly.)
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Stephen Thompson
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Solar powered roads would solve the infrastructure problem
of having electric "gas" stations for the electric and hybrid cars.
Just build power outlets at selected intervals along the road.
Best of all the road may detect how much power you have and
direct you to the nearest power outlet.
Steph T
On 9/20/2010 3:03 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>From Roger Ebert blog: "This fills me with probably
unreasonable hope for Green Electricity. "
See http://j.mp/9pZorn
-tj
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