Top Gear - Captain Slow's brilliant idea..

Whenever TV's 'Top Gear' features electric cars, you may be sure of two things:
 1) They will run out of battery power in the most inconvenient place;
 2) Jezza Clarkson will be chortling with glee.

But when they (finally) reached the seaside, Jezza & Captain Slow (James May) went on some dodgem rides - thereby giving Captain Slow a brilliant idea:
   Overhead power transmission for electric cars on motorways.

It's not as silly as it sounds, i reckon.  Better still, magnetic charging via underground cable..

Possible?  Don't know, but tougher technical problems have been successfully tackled, so why not!
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More happenings

More international happenings..

1) The 'Arab Spring' continues:
     (cf: the then Czechoslovakia's 1968 'Prague Spring')
     Egypt's Hosni Mubarak & others on trial;
     Libya's Muammar Gadaffi losing battle against the now-official rebel      government;
     Syria's Bashar al-Assad brutally trying to repress rebelion.

2) Hurricane Irene blasts US east coast from Florida to Maine.
      Amazingly well-executed evacuation of millions (cf: Katrina!).

3) No US Government financial melt-down but lots of argy-bargy.

4) EU financial speed-wobbles - Greece still a basket-case.

5) Japan has yet another Prime Minister, from post-quake fall-out.

.. & local stuff..
0) CHC earthquake after-shocks rumble on, some of them fiscal/economic>
     who was the twat who said CHC residents should 'harden up'? WTF?!!
     Hell's teeth!!


1) Pike River inquiry fall-out - @ least, that's what i expect.

2) Massive open-cast coal operation approval, on West Coast DoC land!
      Forest-&-Bird are spitting, as are the Greens.  Coasters are pleased.

3) National still polling @ 50+% [sigh].  Labour.. ummm..

4) Wallabies (AUS) win the Tri-nations Cup in Brisbane.

5) RWC fast approaching - teams arriving now.

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