Hasbeen. Your example was manufactured all over the country by dozens of tax-paying companies from dozens of sites. And where our local production was mostly bodies, interior fit-outs with maybe glass, rubber, lights, and gearboxes/diffs made locally?

But from various sites by a compilation of different companies.

Fiat. e.g., built a whole complete car from a single site, by just one company.

This and an energy component that is vastly less costly than the wages bill is how you reduce costs. plus a preorder, direct marketing factory direct is how you get cost down below any current import.

This model further assisted by cooperative capitalism as facilitated and government-funded co-ops, that eliminate obscene CEO salaries and board members gravy trains.

I get that you know SFA science and all your alleged expertise is related to gas-guzzling high-performance combustion engines?

Magnetic induction now charges your phone overnight. And any interference is almost wiped out by the in my preferred example, superconductor's electronic characteristics.

Or maybe you think Flash Gordon sneaks in when nobody is watching and secretly plugs it in. S.A.

The underlay concept is simply the same but just much [Melbourne to Darwin, e.g.,] longer. Otherwise, you can put Flash Gordan into the shafts and haul away. Given he's your special imaginary friend and not mine1

Short-haul Electric planes will also have their range extend by runway graphene underlays, cling wrap thin solar panels, and repelling magnetic VLT/electric rail gun type catapults, and use the extra torque, via counter-rotating, double prop systems that together, effectively doubles/triples current range. And get the most thrust from the engines and battery output.

We lead the world in nanoparticle molded carbon fibre and possess all the elements to manufacture batteries lithium right here.

There will be an MSR thorium pumping 500 MW into the Indonesia grid in around twelve months. Let's see how many S.A remarks you make then, my moribund friend?

You and patently feebleminded S.A., R. W., folk like you, I believe, are the reason we are an economic backwater!

You'll have a nice day now, y'hear.
Alan B.

Alan said
Magnetic induction now charges your phone overnight.
And any interference is almost wiped out by the in my preferred example, superconductor's electronic characteristics.

Come on Alan, I think you know better than that.
The zero resistance will mean less IR loss and a bit more radiation.

Induction charging for cars and busses was stopped in the UK by OFCOM
to see if it could comply with the regs.
All gone quite since about two years ago.

Come on Alan, you read Flash Gorden comics as a boy. He had all those pie in the sky futuristic inventions, like flying cars,[probably nuclear powered], & all this stuff you promote as if it is realistic back in 50s comics.

I don't have a problem with your nuclear power, or your fuel from algae, [you've gone quiet on that], but you lose your way when you fall for the CO2 global warming scam. Don't have enough math to follow the equations that disprove it I suppose.

There is certainly too much subsidising of crackpot schemes connected to energy. Wind and solar. Electric cars. The next corporate welfare splurge will be on hydrogen. A hydrogen powered Hyundai has travelled from Melbourne to Broken Hill on a single tank. That should get the renewable energy enthusiasts worked up, even though the vehicle returned to Melbourne on the back of a truck.

So, all the fantasists will get subsidies for the electric and hydrogen cars. They will also need subsidies for the fleets of carriers needed to get them back home.

If sending electricity to any point via any means, create RF interference, why does sending via exisiting high voltage transmission lines not create problems for radio frequencies? What a great antenna indeed.

It's only lightning bursts that hit the ground at around a million volts and at the point of contact, generating as much as 12,00 C that creates significant RF interference

A superconductor doesn't need such high voltage and therefore there's far less resistance and consequent magnetic field, than in copper or aluminium. Therefore less RF interference? Albeit, large enough for an underbelly induction plate.

Besides, car radios are such old technology. Give me a ten stack CD player any day.

but if you must have radio? Then the choice is either FM or digital, neither of which seem to have any problem with RF interference?

! Electricity follows the line of least resistance and given a super-strong, superconductor is envisaged and using already tested prototype technology. Most of the alleged problems shouldn't arise.

In honour of hasbeen, we could even power a Bathurst, electric 24-hour race and call it the Flash Gordon. If there's any problems with a graphene underlay then we could use new-age capacitators and a fast charge that can, via tried and tested technology, be completed in thirty seconds?

Other things that extend range include, regenerative braking and a locally invented, solar panel paint job. And I believe it has been patented as painted on sun-exposed, body panels. Albeit not as efficient as regular solar panels, but able to generate electricity from all parts of the body. And not significantly more costly than a regular paint job.

Even invite the old hasbeen to participate in a celebratory event as a prelude to the main event, where he'd likely win?
Alan B.