perhaps for a small nation that’s not an issue, but for large countries the likes of America, Canada, Australia, India, China, an invention that’s part of the vehicle is needed.

i have stumbled onto a concept that as yet hasn’t been developed or mentioned anywhere online.

it goes where the vehicle goes.

it’s virtually loss-less, and importantly, 100% safe.

interested?

fred (at) nurture-the-world (dot) org

The issue about people being a conductor is an interesting one : surely what would be acting on the person in the car is the EM field from the pad in the ground, not an electric current, which is what the EM field generates in the receiver?

Even if the pads-in-roads lack sufficient power to charge the batteries, it could still be enough to maintain the car at highway speed without draining any power from the batteries. Depending on cost, this could still be worth while.

My question: inductive systems induce current flows in any nearby conductor. People are electrical conductors, and hence these things will induce currents in them. They will not be enough to kill you, or even feel, but have there been controlled double blind studies reported in journals that show this is harmless?

also the power loss due to drag caused by these turbines will be much higher than the energy produced. If this is not the case then they might have installed some 100 turbines on each superfast trains by now.

Now coming to your review on “Charging on the Go!” sounds a ok idea. But!!!

this technology when charging a parked car is 90% efficient as the conventional charging (I don’t know if a common man accepts to pay this 10% loss). On the roads, I believe the efficiency drops very narrowly (not sure though).

I’ve also often wondered why even conventional cars cannot be fitted with wind turbines or energy recovery systems (ie. dynamos) from the turning of the wheels. I presume because the extra weight / drag would counterbalance the effect … does anyone know for sure?