{"id":6457,"date":"2011-07-23T20:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2011-07-23T20:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T20:30:54","slug":"electric-cars-get-greedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6457","title":{"rendered":"Electric Cars Get Greedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?s=electric+car\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">written about electric cars<\/a> on a number of occasions. My scepticism over their future has never really been in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>So this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-13896166\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">latest story<\/a> just about made me inhale a full cup of tea when I saw it!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6458 lazyload\" title=\"Induction Coil\" alt=\"Induction Coil\" width=\"180\" height=\"62\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/induction_coil.gif\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/62;\" \/>Many, many, many, many, many&#8230; you get the idea&#8230; years ago, I saw a documentary where they had &#8220;transmitted&#8221; electricity a few metres across an office to light a bulb. The presenter even stood in the middle to show how safe it was. One thing he didn&#8217;t go into detail about, as far as I remember, is how inefficient this was. You might consume 100 watts of power&#160;on the transmitter side, but far less than that made it across the void to be used by whatever it was you were powering.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, it is extremely wasteful &#8211; and quite franky, no amount of technological advancement can make this kind of thing as efficient as powering directly from the source.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when you bear in mind that the same thing (overall inefficiency)&#160;already applies to electric cars &#8211; instead of generating the power on-board (as in an engine), you have to burn some fossil fuel, convert it to electricity, store it, then transport it, all at additional energy cost &#8211; it has to be the most bizarre idea imaginable that anyone should propose that induction coils be installed&#160;in the road so that these ridiculous devices can be charged up at the same time they are driving around (or parked).<\/p>\n<p>The whole ethic of the electric car shouts GREEN. Induction loops shout HYPOCRISY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about electric cars on a number of occasions. My scepticism over their future has never really been in doubt. So this latest story just about made me inhale a full cup of tea when I saw it! Many, many, many, many, many&#8230; you get the idea&#8230; years ago, I saw a documentary where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,90,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-computer-tech-related","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}