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- From: Ted_Eugene_Viens@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.energy,rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
- Message-ID: <72308@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 16:23:24 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Dec16.192456.6261@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- >In article <72182@cup.portal.com>, Ted_Eugene_Viens@cup.portal.com writes:
- >> flywheel, and the coils for electric power transfer. Unfortunately I have n
- e
- >ve
- >> r
- >> obtained a CRC Physical Sciences reference book and I am a bit weak on vario
- u
- >s
- >> heats of melting and vaporization. Some crude calculations showed that to g
- o
- >> 600 miles at 60 mph might take some 100 to 400 MegaJoules. Nothing to snitc
- h
- > at
- >
- >400 is about right.
- >
- >> I agree. However this would be non-stop driving. which is contrary to the
- >> intended use of these vehicles in stop and go city driving. What reduction
- >> factor would be introduced by regenerative braking?
- >
- >negative reduction!! Or are you one of those free-energy fanatics who believe
- >that you can get more energy out of a process than you put in?
- >
- >Come on!!!
- >
- >You put energy into the car to get it up to speed. Then you brake - any energ
- y
- >recovered would be less than or equal to the energy needed to get it back up t
- o
- >speed. We all know from entropy, however, that you won't get all the energy
- >back from regenerative braking. Therefore, and note carefully:
- >
- >Stop and go driving will require MORE energy, not less.
- >
- >That's right - why do you think city mpg are less than highway? I mean, for
- >city dirving, since the velocities are lower, you fight less air resistance -
- >in you naive system, city driving would have better mpg.
- >
- >You want 600 miles of city driving, even with regenerative braking, be prepare
- d
- >for Gigajoule flywheels that will melt entire the entire vehicle and leave a
- >hole in the street on failure.
- >
- >> Still, I return to my original opening remark. I have some faith in the eng
- i
- >ne
- >> ers
- >> responsible for designing Flywheel Batteries...
- >
- >Really? Hey, I got some prime Florida real estate to sell you.
- >We could really make some bucks off this pup's "faith".
- >
- >
- >--
- >Richard Stead
- >Center for Seismic Studies
- >Arlington, VA
- >stead@seismo.css.gov
- >
- Someone is being dense here, But I am not so sure it is me. The major use mos
- t
- people have for a car is to get from here to there in some decent amount of tim
- e.
- If they are going to go from LA to NYC as quickly as possible (legally,) I cann
- ot
- think of anything as effecient as a diesel powered car. Nor would I recommend
- anything different. If they were going to make deliveries around town, (and
- Flywheel cars had reached the economy of production of IC cars) I would recomme
- nd
- the flywheel car. Turning to my Whooppee-Doo travel computer, I would probably
- discover that this trip would require some tens of megajoules. Looking at my
- energy meter I would see that I had a couple of tens of megajoules to spare.
- Feeling comfortalbe about my reserve, I would take off eh! on my trip about the
- city. To entertain myself at stoplights, I would make a couple of 'what if'
- calculations on my travel computer. First I would calculate the 'what if I was
- using flycheel power and friction brakes' energy need. Then I would calculate
- the 'what if I was using flywheel power and regenerative brakes' energy need.
- At a following stoplight, I would look down and see that the regenerative brake
- trip needed LESS energy than the friction brake trip. Thus my energy needs
- would benefit from the ''reduction factor of regenerative brakes.'' This
- ''reduction factor...'' would be figured into the design storage capability
- of my cars flywheel battery. Seems pretty reasonable to me...
- Now, truthfully, I may not suck down everything that a sales engineer tried to
- feed me. But, I might pay some attention to what the Product Liability Dept.
- lawyer's engineers were saying to them...
- Would it be improper of me Richard, to request of you that you broaden your
- interpretive skills a little and lighten-up some???
- Bye.... Ted..
-