Anything too technical for ttbn's pea-brain/science-free zone, gets a crackpot label.

Moreover, he has plenty of mates in all our parliaments and political parties. little wonder we are an economic backwater with no visionary, nation-building projects on the table just the biggest spend in our entire history!
I get you don't want an electrified economy or one power b thorium and power prices as low as 1 cent PKWH.

Prices that low would see a stampede to set up manufacturing plants here and genuine tax reform manifesting as an unavoidable 15% flat tax, minus current tax compliance costs. wouldn't just turbocharger the economy but send into orbit And as a mostly Automated high tec, high wages projects.

Meaning we could grow the economy quite massively without increasing our population number and also reduce the cost of transport. A major factor that adds costs to everything we use or consume!
Alan B.

Flat Tax & a National Service or Gap Year Service is the ONLY way if we want some sort of sane future !

ttbn.
The question is not should we switch to electric cars, but how can we make it economic.
The oil companies have told us that we will be changing away from oil based fuels.
Electric cars have already driven all round Australia and only needed
to recharge on a 240 volt GPO overnight a couple of times.
At the rate fast chargers are being installed the Ceduna to Kalgoolie
part will be equipped with fast chargers soon.
I do not think that there is a future for hydrogen cell cars as the overall
energy efficiency is too low and the lifetime of fuel cells is I am told short.

Alan said;
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.

Answer it does, why else do you think Broadband over Power Lines got
the thumbs down from ACMA ?
I attended a demonstration by Country Energy and the radiated interference
was horrendous.
Any transmitter that comes on anywhere in its spectrum kills it stone dead !

I think you may be referring to the national grid transmission lines.
They do cause some interference but by restricting their frequency
spectrum and power they get away with it.
What we are really talking about here is using frequencies in the
region of 150Khz at powers of many Kilowatts, maybe tens of Kw.
The harmonics generated go all across the HF spectrum and VHF.

As far as the phone chargers are concerned they are probably only
magnetic and as the power level is so low, to hell with the losses.
Different kettle of fish when handling multi Kilowatts.

No, inductive systems at those power levels is just not on.
Hmm, just think how much power would be needed one Sunday afternoon on
the M1 north of Sydney with thousands of cars all drawing power, ughh.

I'm sorry Bazz you may know a lot about high-frequency transmission lines? By one of my properties was just yards from such an array and we just never experienced the RF interference you claim. Perhaps you are just full of it?

Yes at some point the magnetic field generated will light up neon tubes. But the tried and tested system I'm referring to is not high voltage. Because as a superconductor, it just doesn't need to beat the same level of resistance, which for graphene, almost nonexistent.

Hasbeen, just major highways and rail. Other than that, could be trailed for home use where you park your car every night? Meaning, you just drive in and leave the car there and come out in the morning to a car with an 80% charge and ready for the morning commute.

The car of the future will be electric, probably carbon fibre over carbon fibre honeycomb internal sandwich. the outer and inner carbon fibre overlay, separated by a fine mesh of, 200 times stronger than steel, graphene? Which would make a vehicle with armour no bullet or RPG could penetrate. also fitted with double glass as bulletproof polycarbonate. Glass smashed by flying stones etc, a thing of the past!

Graphene layers also act as a faraday cage to block magnetic pulses that destroy electronics. Given two layers, one could also double as a circuit carrying all the current to all the inboard electrics, the other carrying all the charge to the batteries, given its superconductor characteristics.

Can't see a role for this technology powering ships but maybe submersibles where the water is no more than an average of 200 metres deep and where to recharge they'd need to all but hug the bottom/undersea graphene cored cable.

Roll on roll off interisland ferries maybe, Singapore to Darwin etc, given decent battery capacity for the deep parts?
Alan B.

Alan, you reason you never heard any interference might be you never
listened where it was. They have done a good job of keeping it down
but the power levels are probably well below 10 watts in a restricted bandwidth.
The problem is the high power required. To drive cars requires
kilowatts and the same stretch of roadway might have 20 cars on it.
So you are probably looking at 10 kilowatts.
In your scheme,would it be inductively coupled or capacitor coupled ?
In Germany Mercedes experimented with overhead wires and pantagraphs
on trucks on an autobahn as per trolley buses.