THE Future

Range anxiety, long charge time, expensive; these are all valid criticisms of today's electric vehicles. To get a range anxiety-free, no charge time, inexpensive, zero-emissions vehicle requires cutting out a lot of the "middle man" of power production, distribution, and consumption. People are taking the wrong route at the fork in the road for EVs. They see setting up charging stations everywhere as the way to keep people connected. That's not going to solve anything, even with speed chargers. I don't want to hook up anything to my vehicle at all...ever. Now, how can all of this be achieved? Centralization. What's more likely to happen? America's electric vehicles all being powered by home-owned solar arrays or from a company which consolidates solar and does the work for them? I'm going with the latter. I want you to imagine a few things, all of which are technologically feasible. What if we built vehicles so that they could absorb an electromagnetic signal from a tower which received space based solar power? Imagine, the sunlight would hit giant mirrors which would concentrate an enormous amount of solar energy onto a solar array which would then beam the power down to a distribution station which could send the power to cars, buildings, and even planes. This would negate the need for a national electric grid. A vehicle would function much like a cell phone. You would have areas of coverage, where one day, the whole planet would be covered. The car would have a swappable on-board battery for emergencies and when repairs need done. Hopefully, batteries would become obsolete.  You can go anywhere, zero-emissions, for as long as you like. It's like turning on the light switch though. You could pay a monthly subscription which would provide unlimited driving. Wireless power transmission has already been proven to work, it just needs to be improved further. Space based solar power is also an up-and-coming technology which makes plenty of sense, especially since investors are growing interested in this idea. Remember, solar energy is more intense in space and has a 100% capacity factor.


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