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Old 08-25-2010, 01:14 AM   #5 (permalink)
saand
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winfield, i like the enthusiasm but not sure the efficiencies are high enough and distances practical enough for the technology to take off.
Nikola tesla had these ideas i guess 60 or more years ago, there is probably a reason they haven't yet taken off.

For light weight electric cars some more workable ideas have been floated such as near feel transformers at traffic lights and a much more likely one of swapping out batteries at service stations so you get a full charged battery so you only have to carry around battery weight for say 100miles worth of a driving.
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