Elon Musk. Twitter. Babylon Bee.

[Sliceitup]

I want to see all power lines buried in the asphalt, and have continuous wireless charging for cars as they drive on the road.

I remember seeing a concept many years ago, maybe in Popular Mechanics magazine, where the road was made of some type of panels that you could light in different ways to accommodate different traffic needs. Like 5/6 lanes in one direction during evacuations. I think there was a power component to it too, but can’t remember details

[RZehr]

I want to see all power lines buried in the asphalt, and have continuous wireless charging for cars as they drive on the road.

So you would zap yourself every time you walk across the road?

Like wireless phone chargers. No shocking. The power lines aren’t charging the car, they are connected to the buried chargers. And the car software would measure the amount of electricity to be paid for.

[Pelerin]

I want to see all power lines buried in the asphalt, and have continuous wireless charging for cars as they drive on the road.

So you would zap yourself every time you walk across the road?

Presumably not any worse than you would on a wireless phone charger.

I read an article a few years ago (I wish I could find it now) that a company had built a directional wireless charger that could charge a battery across the room with the downside that the charging beam needed to put out so much power to accomplish that that it was potentially lethal to any humans that happened to get between the charger and their phones. If I remember the breakthrough was a wider second beam around the first one that detects any interruption passing through (i.e. your hand) and cuts the charging beam before it gets to the killer beam, making it perfectly safe.

Well don’t just stand there, come on in then; the chance of failure is statistically very small.

[Josh]

Nikola Tesla illuminated his lab with wireless lights.

He also ran low current high voltage high frequency electricity through his head.

[Ken]

I want to see all power lines buried in the asphalt, and have continuous wireless charging for cars as they drive on the road.

So you would zap yourself every time you walk across the road?

Like wireless phone chargers. No shocking. The power lines aren’t charging the car, they are connected to the buried chargers. And the car software would measure the amount of electricity to be paid for.

The problem with EV charging is efficiency.

How efficient would this short of wireless charging be compared to high-voltage corded charging? I can envision massive voltage loss with such a system.

If it takes 2-3 times (or 10-times) more electricity to charge cars in this fashion then that means 2-3 times more power plants and so forth. And that doesn't seem like a good tradeoff for simple convenience.

And if the voltage is low enough so that you don't shock people then I would expect a running car is going to be burning electricity faster than it charges so all you are really accomplishing is extending range a little bit, not actually charging cars. For example, it takes 20-40 hours to fully charge a Tesla with 120 volt household current. So even if you are charging at 120 volts on the highway you'll still be burning power must faster than you are charging. If a fully charged Tesla can run about 5 hours at highway speed then constantly charging at 120 volts while driving will only extend your range by about 20%.

[Bootstrap]

Like wireless phone chargers. No shocking. The power lines aren’t charging the car, they are connected to the buried chargers. And the car software would measure the amount of electricity to be paid for.

Hmmm. With horizontal boring, that just might be possible. You could run powerlines efficiently, give people a way to charge at many locations, and figure out a way to charge them the same way they are charged at home. That would save money, increase availability, and just make sense.

Does anyone here understand horizontal boring? I've been watching the Google folks bury fiber as I run in the mornings, and they can somehow bore small diameter holes for long distances with great accuracy. It just doesn't seem possible. How can they do that?

[mike]

Value of $5,000 invested 10 years ago:

Tesla: $269,475
Nvidia: $248,464
Netflix: $113,885
Adobe: $45,067
O’Reilly Automotive: $46,313
Microsoft: $43,485
Domino’s Pizza: $41,145
Apple: $35,545
Mastercard: $34,707
Visa: $27,517
Home Depot: $25,995
Nike: $22,651
Starbucks: $18,500

[Ken]

Value of $5,000 invested 10 years ago:

Tesla: $269,475
Nvidia: $248,464
Netflix: $113,885
Adobe: $45,067
O’Reilly Automotive: $46,313
Microsoft: $43,485
Domino’s Pizza: $41,145
Apple: $35,545
Mastercard: $34,707
Visa: $27,517
Home Depot: $25,995
Nike: $22,651
Starbucks: $18,500

And....

Bitcoin: $6,169,479

If I'm doing my math right.

If only we had a time machine.

Now do the top 10 stocks of the next 10 years!

[RZehr]

LA Times op-ed writer is 'embarrassed' to drive environment-saving Tesla because of Musk

https://www.foxnews.com/media/la-times- ... tesla-musk

"When I bought the car, I had no real opinion on Musk’s somewhat clouded political beliefs. Now that Musk has apparently swung to the far right — banning journalists from Twitter while reinstating neo-Nazis — I’m horrified to be associated with his brand whenever I drive anywhere," Blumenthal wrote. "I don’t know whether to sell, but I do know that I’m just not as comfortable driving it anymore."

The article also revealed that Blumenthal’s motivation for purchasing a Tesla in the was primarily motivated by politics."

"The car was impractical, but it had sentimental value. My environmental activist friends were not impressed by my assiduous urban composting, LED bulb installations and energy-saving appliances. I needed to do more to diminish my carbon footprint. The icebergs were melting, my friends said, and at least one polar bear was wandering around homeless and hungry because of me," he wrote.

While Blumenthal acknowledged that the "sale of a used Tesla would hardly cause a blip for the company," he continued to wonder whether he should act as "a form of protest."

"It’s a beautifully designed car with no carbon emission, and initially, I was proud of owning it and being seen driving a vehicle that displayed my concern for the environment. But I’m a liberal, and if Musk’s politics don’t change radically for the better, driving a Tesla will become, at least for me, as hypocritical and untenable as driving a gas guzzler was," Blumenthal concluded.

What a nut.
And:

Used Tesla prices are plummeting four times faster than other cars
https://www.yahoo.com/news/now-great-ti ... 40411.html

In July, the average used Model 3, S, X, or Y would have cost you $67,297. But by November, prices slid 17% to $55,754. Used-car prices on the whole are also coming down after years of short supply, but not as sharply, dropping 4% over the same period, according to Edmunds data.

Teslas are also sitting on used-car lots for longer than other brands' vehicles: 50 days as opposed to 38 days, Edmunds said. Declining gas prices, competition from other brands, and high interest rates are all contributing to the dropping prices, Reuters reported.

[ken_sylvania]

He also ran low current high voltage high frequency electricity through his head.

and he died afterward...