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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Subject: Re: Popular Science Fly Wheel Article
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 05:25:30 GMT
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- carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
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- [PopSci(fi) article deleted)
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- >The rest of the article implies that they're using, pretty much, off-the-shelf
- >technology. Why the two-year delay? I know Kevlar's fancy stuff, but TWO YEARS
- >to manufacture a flywheel for testing? Looks to me like these guys are just
- >blowing smoke, hoping for a miracle to solve the obvious problems for them
- >sometime in the next two years (or maybe they figure that they can hide the
- >obvious problems for that long, then head south with the unspent research
- >funds).
-
- Looks that way. Have ya ever noticed that if something appears in
- Pop Sci, it almost never makes it to the real world? Anyone else remember
- the first flywheel article Pop Sci did oh, maybe 25 years ago?
- Back then the "miracle flywheel" would be a thin rim, thick hub disk
- rotating in a vacuum. Deployment was "just around the corner".
-
- Can you just imagine what the "ecostar" (NOT!) would look like with
- twenty flywheels on board? Maybe they'd squeeze a passenger here and
- there. BTW, anyone seen any published figures for Cd and weight on
- the ecostar? I have some new vehicle performance analysis software here
- I'm reviewing for the magazine. I could plug these numbers in and
- estimate the power needed to run this pig. See how they jive with
- published power numbers.
-
- John
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