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Bring back the trolley bus

January 10, 2017

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After Derek showed his ElectRoad’s wireless charging system for buses that puts a big continuous coil in the road, I wondered the same thing I do with all wireless charging systems: why are we filling our homes and now our roads with giant magnetic fields? I know that the dangers of EMF are seriously disputed, but if it is going to charge a bus, these are BIG HONKING POWERFUL magnetic fields.

And I wondered, not for the first time, why do we make life so complicated? Why not bring back the trolley bus? They work in Vancouver, and quite a few cities in Europe and South America.

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