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- From: bbarkey@lark.utah.edu (Brian Barkey)
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.214616.27043@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: University of Utah
- References: <1992Dec19.192819.1816@adobe.com> <1992Dec21.193621.12001@microware.com> <78564@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 21:46:16 GMT
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- In article <78564@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:
- >In <1992Dec21.193621.12001@microware.com> troyf@microware.com (Troy Frericks) writes:
- >
- >|>If I were a terrorist, I would drool at the thought of being able to
- >|>get such wonderful bombs so easily... All you'd have to do is arrange
- >|>for the vacuum valve to be opened on command or the magnetic bearing
- >|>to be turned off, etc.
- >|>
- >|>BOOM!
- >
- >|Modern composit materials, when used in a flywheel, will disintegrate
- >|with such a failuar. This bomb would be about as wonderful as some
- >|fiber-glass insulation falling out of your attic.
- >
- >You haven't been listening have you?
- >It doesn't matter what form the flywheel takes after disintegration.
- >It could even turn into a gas or sub-atomic particles. What causes the
- >BOOM is all of that kinetic energy being turned into heat.
- >
- And gasoline isn't explosive?
- I may be mistaken but any power source capable of propelling
- a ton or more at speeds greater than 50 mph for hundreds of
- miles must have a significant amount of energy in it.
-
- Brian Barkey
-