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- From: csmith@plains.NoDak.edu (Carl Smith)
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:11:35 GMT
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- In article <51718@seismo.CSS.GOV> stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead) writes:
- >In article <Bzu6DJ.I6v@ns1.nodak.edu>, csmith@plains.NoDak.edu (Carl Smith) writes:
- >> In article <1992Dec25.134459.7728@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >> >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
- >[...]
- >> explosion. You don't need perfect 14:1 to cause an explosion.
- >
- >While on insignificant details, I will point out that any deviation from
- >the 14:1 ideal mixture may still explode, but will not release the maximum
- >power. That is, with too much gas, a lot of the gas will not combust in the
- >explosion. With too much air, some gas will not combust, and the speed
- >of the explosion is less, resulting in less power.
-
- I agree, and would like to add some more comments.
- This is true. Deviations from the ideal 14:1 mixture will not result
- in the maximum explosive force possible for the given amount of
- gasoline. But I say this to everyone who has made a comment about
- needing a 14:1 mixture: Even if you are not causing the biggest bang
- possible, the explosion can still hurt people, and hurt them badly.
-
- I am not trying to say that this makes gas just as dangerous as
- spinning flywheels, it was just bothering me that people were basing
- the probability of a dangerous gas/air explosion on the odds of having
- an ideal 14:1 gas air mixture, when in fact anything remotly resembling
- 14 to 1 has a chance of causing a dangerous bang...
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