What if the wires were as free to use as the roads themselves? Instead of just one city trolleybus every few minutes you could have a whole world of privately owned In-Motion Charging vehicles. Imagine the wires feeding vans, trucks, private bus lines, anything you don't want shitting diesel fumes as it idles in traffic.This obviously doesn't make sense if electricity generation is constrained or expensive, but as fusion power comes online and energy gets an order of magnitude cheaper it could become worth it for cities to just eat the cost and reap the other benefits, or have some other higher level government subsidize the programs.
I asked Claude Opus about this and it's apparently profitable for certain congested truck routes between seaports or railyards and interstate onramps even with current energy prices if fuel prices stay high enough (lol California). If it can work at 55-65mph (current trolleybus systems usually top out at 40mph), some pretty decent chunks of interstate running through cities can be worth it. Imagine all the shitty diesel noise of urban traffic jams replaced with silence.
>>2066756https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg
>>2066857Good video, thanks. Looks like the tech is there, but typical euroqueers tried using it in the wrong places and so abandoned it.
>>2066760>I asked Claude Opus about thisGood on you for admitting it but nonetheless, kys
>>2066756>>2066760Having seen the condition of the trucks run down here in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, I can readily envision the janky shit the truck drivers would do to their rigs that could inadvertently damage overhead trolley wires. FFS, rather than buy new tires, they pay guys crawling around the yards to cut new treads into their bald tires. And if you expand the use of the trolley wires to the public in general, holy fuck. Think of the shittiest hoopdies you've seen in the bad parts of town and imagine them hooked up to a high voltage system. If the wires or power delivery systems themselves don't get damaged, think of all the car fires from fuckwads hooking their 06 Prius with four mismatched body panels and a homemade lithium koolaid battery wired into an inverter using parts of stripped jumper cables and connected to the overhead wires with a trolley pole made out of an old TV aerial antenna.
