That's the electric cars sorted

[ARWadsworth]

[tony sayer]

In article , ARWadsworth scribeth thus

charging for main roads somewhere long ago in an argument with Drivel.

Still not a radical idea....

[John Williamson]

Note to manufacturers:-

*Please*, before it gets common, could we have a standard that works with *all* devices.

[Nightjar]

Induction charged buses have been in use in Torino since 2003 and are also undergoing trials in Los Angeles. The Dutch are looking into a system that uses solar panels at bus stops to provide the power for charging the buses.

Colin Bignell

[Jon Fairbairn]

road and line either side with something conductive. Cars could then have a collector sticking out of the bottom that mated with the conductors. I seem to recall a toy based on this principle.

[ARWadsworth]

:-)

Now if the scientists would stop messing around and invent a teleport machine we would not have this problem.

And why on StarTrek did people walk to a transporter bay when they could be transported there?

[The Natural Philosopher]

what's the transfer efficiency? 3%? 5%?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Been around for ever and never been used because its simply not efficient safe or practicable at high power levels. .

[tony sayer]

I had visions of several cables laying around in the road and competition for who's power-fuel you wanted.

Course we could have overhead cables too;))..

[The Natural Philosopher]

The actors union insisted.

[tony sayer]

Theres a good joke there somewhere about "another one will be along any week now" ;?....

[tony sayer]

Scalectrix IIRC?..

[Andy Burns]

[Paul - xxx]

Which makes it a no-goer?

[Nightjar]

London trams worked that way in many areas, although the power bars were inside the conduit, so that people couldn't step on them.

Colin Bignell

[Brian Gaff]

Load of old rubbish. It will neverhappen. Brian

[brass monkey]

We could call'em trolley-buses :D

[brass monkey]

Yep, it surely can't keep rising like this without a few folks thinking "hey, hang on a minute".

[Tim Watts]

If I invented a transporter, I would put the design on USENET in the public domain.

Then I would set up a company selling transporter shielding for $$$$

[dennis]

Its not possible, well not as Star trek way. Its not the scanning along with the quantity of data that is the biggest problem. Its getting the energy from the start to the finish. Even one person (say 100kg) would probably produce enough energy to rip the atmosphere of the planet. We are talking billions of tons of TNT stuff.

What stops you transporting the shielding first?