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There’s hardware in the device to convert the variable voltage of the cranking into a smoothed voltage in order to send it to the battery without the battery exploding. That’s my point; the hardware required to do this WIRELESSLY for a VEHICLE IN MOTION doesn’t exist.
Oh boy, seven month charging times for 300 mile range!
It… does. Otherwise the vehicle can’t "power itself from radio waves.” The receiver has to be in the car.
Correct, but with the scale of power output required to actually do what the post claims it can do, it would be on the order of what happens to commercial windmills when they don’t shut down in high winds.
Remember in the ‘80s when “microwave power stations in orbit beamed down to Earth” was The Future™? Turns out, with the surface area required by the receiver antenna, solar panels (even at the time) could produce about three times the power. It’s just not viable. There are some electric cars today with solar panel roofs (to do just what you’re suggesting), but even then it’s really, truly just a “top up” supplement, not anywhere near capable of powering it indefinitely.
Yep.
You can fit a voltage regulator capable of regulating 4 kW/h throughput into a hand crank?
Other than the laws of physics explicitly stating it’s not possible, sure.