Electrifying highways, part V

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The last post basically described a trolley pole, but with a couple of twists.  The first twist is that it extends from the vehicle to the ground, not the other way around.  A bit of wordplay that.  The "ground" meaning electrical connection.  Has a nice sound to match ground and around.  The connection is downward, so to speak, not upward.  Down rhymes with ground and around, too.  Ok, enough alliteration.  Anyway, the second twist is that it won't require rails, but a sliding "seeker mechanism" on the vehicle that will enable it to stay connected to the live wire even while drifting within the lane.

Trolleys aren't new, but old technology.  Curious isn't it, how an old technology can be used once again to raise the standard of living?  It is an adaptation of old technology with new technology in order to solve an old problem.  The old problem is how best to use scarce resources.  This will help battery technology to work with cars.  Which isn't a new idea either, come to think of it.

Tried and true technology to solve a problem.  Why didn't anyone else think of that?  The point being is that it will work.  You don't need magic beans or secret sauce.  You just need to actually solve the problem.  We don't seem to able to do that anymore.  "We are the gold", but the gold is all used up, sadly.

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