In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:39:58 -0400 (GMT-04:00): Hi, [snip] >Since electric cars are more efficient than gasoline powered ones, I expect >there is more than enough wind power in the world to generate all of the >energy we now use. We need only two things: the ideal battery and HTSC power >lines.
An alternative would be to use Tesla's method of pumping energy into the Earth, and extracting it with tuned receivers. *No transmission lines required*. Of course all power transmitters would need to be owned by one entity, as there would otherwise be no way of determining who should get paid. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
