Using the road itself to recharge electric cars »

Posted By IsraGeek 5 months ago in Science & Technology

Researchers are developing different methods to harness the energy produced from passing cars on road surfaces to recharge electric cars in motion.

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    calitennflo5 months ago

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    http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?Fuse...

    Thank-you...this is what I knew, plus you can use the sound to generate even more energy on the sides of the freeways...simply by knowing how a speaker works...a coil moving a field accross a permaneant magnet.
    Above is the place to e-mail the Honorable Senator Susan Collins...maybe she can help in reaching these goals at a faster pace.

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      vizion5 months ago

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      Cool technology.

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        MisterX5 months ago

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        Weren't they working on propelling a rocket with a laser awhile back?

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          injest5 months ago

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          ”Thank-you...this is what I knew, plus you can use the sound to generate even more energy on the sides of the freeways..”

          “.simply by knowing how a speaker works...a coil moving a field accross a permaneant magnet.”

          Ya, there called “sound powered phones”. The US Navy has been using them since BEFORE WW2.

          You might also want to contact the operators of the “San Diego Trolley”

          Long stretches of the trolley train tracks run parallel to overhead power transmission lines, when the trolley runs down this line the train becomes in effect a “core” of a transformer.

          The trolley has been running since the early 80’s so there should be a lot of data to analyze.

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