If you live in a town nearby a steep mountain this is great for you to pay all your electric bills. Essentially there's a cable-suspended car elevator that comes down the mountain. A car drives up and can take the quick car-vater down to save on time and break pads. The car-vater generates electricity for the town. Obviously, this would be best for a road with a lot of traffic and you could charge people to go up the car-vater if they want to make the trip quickly.
Have you ever been in a speech or something where the speaker fields questions from the audience? If you weren't in a UN-style microphone-at-every-seat equipped room, then you probably saw one or two saps running the microphone around to those asking questions. I was this sap recently in a press conference, and although I consider myself quite agile, it still delayed things and was noisy for the cameras (not to mention my beautimous profile when I had to run in front of them). I've also heard people bragging about shot-gun mics that can pick up someone's voice leagues away. Couldn't these work in this situation, where the sap can just stand at the front with headphones on and point the mic at whoever is talking? Maybe it wouldn't work so well in a football stadium, but surely a 20-person press conference could manage. Right?
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