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Sept 30, 2006 The notion is rather simple, but in practice it would probably be rather difficult. The idea is to have a whole lot of solar panels along the sides of highways to collect energy. These could be in the medians of divided highways, or along the outside of highways. After collecting the power, a device would collect up the power, and wait for a car to signal the system for a refuel. When it gets this signal, the system waits until the car is next to the system, and then sends a concentrated beam of light (aka, a laser) at the car. The car will have to be equipped with a solar panel like system that is able to collect energy from lasers instead of sunbeams. Potential issues: - being able to absorb energy from a burst of laser light almost instantly. - dangers of high powered lasers going astray, or objects getting between car and laser. - loss of energy from sunlight to solar collectors, and from solar collectors to lasers, and from lasers to car. Alternate setups: - electricity could be shipped in to lasers by conventional means instead of being collected on the spot by solar panels. - power could be transferred to car with metal contacts, so for example upon being signaled, the system could raise a flexible metal object from the road - and when the bottom of the car makes contact with this object, a large bolt of electricity gets passed to the car. Obviously there are some obstacles to overcome with this setup as well. 
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