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Recharging Road Could Power Cars

Recharging road could power cars

South Korea's top technology university has developed a plan to power electric cars through recharging strips embedded in roadways, using a technology to transfer energy found in some electric toothbrushes. Ref. Source 1

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I can see the Ontario power generators cringing already since our system is already taxed to the max. To know if this is a cost effective method one would have to know the losses in the transfer from electricity to electro-magnets and the electrical rates.

It might not be good for the general public but public transit perhaps. I just can not any countries electrical grind being ready to handle such a large influx of power usage.

Perhaps this is there way of justifying having some nuclear stations build with out so much political pressure against it.

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The technology is sound but like you said it is going to take a lot of electricity to power this. I wonder if wind energy or even hydroelectricity can be used to power these so we do not have to build a lot more nuclear power stations. IF we could fet fusion down then we would have more than enough electricity.

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True but if we get that underhand I think we would just install one as the engine to start with and save laying out tracks. That is leading into a different topic though so for now I think it is and interesting g concept on a small scale. Say major city centers.

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Yes it would work great for larger cities but I think if the demand gets too high it will be like running air all the time and rolling brown outs or black outs will occur.