[RFI] Wireless Power Transfer with electric vehicles

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Sun Apr 11 20:40:35 EDT 2021


On 4/11/2021 4:50 PM, David Eckhardt wrote:
> EVs:  they are also ignoring the power must be generated somewhere,
> somehow, in some manner, using multiple natural resources.  The EV power
> budget is a loser when the womb-to-tomb analysis of electric power
> generation is properly addressed in a scientifically rigorous manner and
> excluding politicians.

Yes, the power must be generated somewhere, but you seem to be ignoring 
wind and solar, both of which are growing strongly and getting cheaper 
by the year. W6JTI lives off the grid in the mountains a few miles from 
the Pacific in the "lost coast" region north of Mendocino. He charges 
his Model 3 from power that he generates from a stream running by his 
house.

BTW -- I'm currently reading a new autobiography of Jimmy Carter by 
journalist Jonathan Alter. Carter grew up on a farm that had no 
electricity or running water until he was in high school. A graduate of 
the Naval Academy, Carter retired from the nuclear submarine fleet after 
working as one of two lead engineers under Admiral Rickover to oversee 
the development and manufacturing of our first nuclear subs. His 
biographer quotes MANY of those who worked with him as being VERY 
bright, able to master new scientific disciplines and technology very 
quickly. Those subs had nuclear reactors to generate power years before 
land-based reactors were used to generate electrical power. His 
experience with those subs prepared him as President to react to the 
failure at Three Mile Island nuclear plant.

Carter retired from the Navy as a Lieutenant, getting glowing reports 
from Rickover, his direct report, to take over the family business his 
father had built when his Dad died unexpectedly of cancer. After doing 
so, he did a lot of complex and  innovative engineering to modernize the 
business, including a large working farm that raised cotton and peanuts, 
among other things.

BTW -- as President, Carter foresaw the issue of climate change, and had 
solar panels installed on the roof of the White House as a demonstration 
project to excite the American public about it. Reagan considered them a 
joke, and had them removed.

73, Jim K9TC




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