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- From: csmith@plains.NoDak.edu (Carl Smith)
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- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 22:27:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.134459.7728@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
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- >You don't understand. The gasoline *does* contain the same amount of
- >energy as the flywheel, that's the whole point of the exercise. But
- >liquid gasoline can't explode. Only gasoline vapor properly mixed
- >with oxygen, 14:1 air/fuel ratio, can explode.
-
- Normally I wouldn't find fault with such an insignificant detail, but
- I have seen this so many times during this tread that I thought I would
- make a comment. 14:1 is the IDEAL mixture, but there is a rather wide
- range over which the mixture will ignite. Eventually it will be so rich
- that it will be hard to ignite due to "lack of oxygen," and in the other
- direction there can be so little gas fumes that you couldn't cause an
- explosion. You don't need perfect 14:1 to cause an explosion.
-