Re: Any alternatives for conventional gasoline?

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:48:19 +0100, Pooh Bear
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Arnold Walker wrote:

Induction roads would require tolls roads,since I don't think anybody is
going to donate electricity.

Induction roads aren't going to happen since they don't actually work in the real
world.

Nah, they'd work -- we've had the technological means for 100 years
now (a bit less if you posit electronic guidance). The real questions
I think are whether they'd be economically competitive and whether you
could mobilize the country to make the massive investment in
infrastructure. That article I quoted earlier makes an interesting
point vis-a-vis the relative economics of induction and direct power
transmission, but doesn't explain though how direct power transmission
would work in an urban environment where you can't electrify the
streets. I doubt people would want to drive cars with pantographs on
them . . .

--
Josh

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of food stamps. Instead of having a welfare officer, they have a trust officer. And instead
of food stamps, they have stocks and bonds."

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