NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/sci/electron/21525

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Wilson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.energy,rec.autos
Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
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Date: 24 Dec 92 03:27:10 GMT
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Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David Lesher) writes:

|Others said:
|# It doesn't sound like you have been listening either.  In the event of
|# a catastrophic failure, gasoline burns, it does not explode.  The energy
|# contained in the tank is released over a period of 15 to 20 minutes.
|#
|# The flywheel will try to dissipate it is energy over a span of milliseconds.

|Errr,
|Try telling the three people who burned to death in the tanker/
|multi-car crash at the I 270/Beltway intersection that it is ok that
|gasoline burns over 15-20 minutes. That may be true, but they are still
|dead, regardless of how long their remains cooked.

Errr, yourself.  Every year how many people get out of their cars before
they start to burn, or before the flames get to intense.  I don't know
myself, but it is probably hundreds if not thousands.  Way, way more than
the number who burn to death.

In a flywheel crash, they have only milliseconds to get out of the car.
How many do you think will make it.

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