“We can put solar panels in the tunnels! Give me another trillion!”
Comment on Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks agoMusk will do it better with tunnels full of self driving cars that are recharged in real time from the solar pannel roads they are driving on!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
towerful@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Nah, the tunnel needs to be surrounded by magnets that induce a current in the Tesla as it drives through. That current can then be used to charge the Tesla.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Ok but now my brain is thinking we may as well strip it down as much as possible, just use the magnets to move metal boxes with wheels like a railgun
towerful@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
No. This would require the driver to keep the car perfectly aligned… Unless…
What if we used some sort of auto-steering system. Like, if the wheels had no ability to go anywhere other than the track.
And metal wheels on a metal road is going to have the least friction and least wear and… oh fuck we just re-invented trains
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The carcinization of transportation
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
that’s literally any maglev train in use in China or Japan.