Great.... more wires to beautify our view.

Back to the past - we had this in Calgary for buses downtown back in the 1970s. I remember the driver having to jump out & use the huge long pole to pull the contactor back into alignment with the wires.

I'd take wires over smog any day.

could this be a brilliant way to charge up the batteries that will soon be coming down the pike? Perhaps something buried on ground to induce a charge and re-energize depleted batteries? O

More wires - looks nice, sure. Now for the snow, ice, birds, and when a power pole gets knocked over allowing parts of the system/miles of line to be "off-line". We'll have shortages of food, gas or ?? for days and the roads are turned in to parking lots full of 18 wheelers. Yes, they have some backup fuel but not enough to get them to their destination or nearest fuel stop. Also, we have too many trucks in the left lanes already. Old tech - we should be able to do better - CA has plenty of money, right. They can build anything.

Isn't that what trains are for? They already have their own roads. Make them electric if you need to cut down on CO2 emissions. However, I've heard a few top notch scientists say CO2 emissions aren't a bad thing, as CO2 makes up just 5% of green house gases. Water vapor is the big one.

Surely we can have just small sections to charge, rather than trying to implement continuous overhead infra-structure.

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/climatesciencenarratives/its-water-vapor-not-the-co2.html
True, as far as it goes, but read above for reasons why CO2, CH4 etc have the greater effect over time. We cannot control water vapor in the atmosphere except by warming the air so that higher levels can arise before condensation & cloud formation. The water cycle is intensified by other greenhouse gases. Which "top notch scientists" are you referring to?

WOW, what a stupid idea. Of course it's in California, where they think a balanced budget is a punch line. Semi's future will be electric, but not done this way. It'll be pure battery power. Hydrogen would be my second choice.

at RFitz; california does NOT have a lot of money. due to a lot of stupid bureaucratic decisions they are spending too fast and may soon be bankrupt. one example; they are trying to eliminate ALL internal combustion engines, not realizing that trucks, boats/ships, generators, lawn mowers, trains, etc. all use them. go ahead CA tell the hospitals they can't have an ICE generator for when the power goes out! same thing with all the computer corporations.