Comments on: How We Travel: 10 Fresh Ideas http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2012/07/how-we-travel-10-fresh-ideas/ How human ingenuity is changing the way we live Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:22:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Mel Baker http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2012/07/how-we-travel-10-fresh-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-1416 Mel Baker Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:49:00 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/?p=3131#comment-1416 There have been other inventors looking at roadways that are solar power collectors or one that uses the heat from the flex pressure in the road to generate electricity. If you could make a roadway that both powered itself (at least in part) and transmitted energy to the vehicles riding on it (even if only a small amount to help charge the battery) you'd really have something. If you were going to electrify the road, then why not also make it carry the power lines for the community. Long distance highways that carry electricity from one town to another, generate electricity from the vehicles riding on them and help power same vehicles. Then the cost might actually make sense. Instead of a toll, you are charged for the power the road sends to your car battery.. Sweet! There have been other inventors looking at roadways that are solar power collectors or one that uses the heat from the flex pressure in the road to generate electricity. If you could make a roadway that both powered itself (at least in part) and transmitted energy to the vehicles riding on it (even if only a small amount to help charge the battery) you’d really have something. If you were going to electrify the road, then why not also make it carry the power lines for the community.

Long distance highways that carry electricity from one town to another, generate electricity from the vehicles riding on them and help power same vehicles. Then the cost might actually make sense. Instead of a toll, you are charged for the power the road sends to your car battery.. Sweet!

]]> By: Kathy http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2012/07/how-we-travel-10-fresh-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-983 Kathy Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:58:37 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/?p=3131#comment-983 #6 - "And the airline ultimately saves money by no longer needing the in-flight entertainment systems that add weight to each plane." I don't believe that this is their only reason for doing this. It will be another opportunity to inundate passengers with advertising and hopefully generate more revenue. #6 – “And the airline ultimately saves money by no longer needing the in-flight entertainment systems that add weight to each plane.”

I don’t believe that this is their only reason for doing this. It will be another opportunity to inundate passengers with advertising and hopefully generate more revenue.

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