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- From: stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
- Message-ID: <51717@seismo.CSS.GOV>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 01:55:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.192456.6261@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <72182@cup.portal.com> <92Dec24.183312.17315@acs.ucalgary.ca>
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- In article <92Dec24.183312.17315@acs.ucalgary.ca>, morrow@cns.ucalgary.ca (Bill Morrow) writes:
- > City driving mpg figures would be higher, if we didn't sit in traffic jams and
- > at red lights with the engine doing nothing useful. Calculate mpg
- > subtracting out the gallons consumed when not moving. Depending on where you
- > drive, I'm sure that *effective* city mpg is considerably higher.
-
- Only given complete energy recovery with regenerative braking. This won't
- happen (entropy if nothing else will prevent it). Sure, energy disspiated
- against air resistance is lower at city speeds, but there are too many other
- losses that more than compensate.
-
- > How much energy in a fly-wheel 1cm across spinning at 1Mrpm :) ?
-
- Assuming a disk, energy is 0.125 * M * R^2 * da/dt^2
- Your flywheel would store 120 * M megaJoules, where M is mass in kg.
- If the 1 cm disk weighed 1 kg (more of a cylinder I imagine), it would
- take 4 of these flywheels to provide 400 megaJoules that are likely
- to be needed to power the vehicle the 600 miles claimed. But the stress
- in the material would cause any material to fail before reaching
- 1 Mrpm in this design.
-
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- Richard Stead
- Center for Seismic Studies
- Arlington, VA
- stead@seismo.css.gov
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