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- From: hoyt@isus.UUCP (Hoyt A. Stearns jr.)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Flywheel Battery
- Message-ID: <1992Jul11.191408.12226@isus.UUCP>
- Date: 11 Jul 92 19:14:08 GMT
- References: <1992Jul6.150905.26754@microplex.com> <75361@ut-emx.uucp> <9912@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
- Organization: International Society of Unified Science
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- In article <9912@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> hall@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Hal Lillywhite) writes:
- >In article <75361@ut-emx.uucp> johncobb@ut-emx.cc.utexas.edu (John W. Cobb) writes:
- >
- >Probably the best solution is to mount the flywheel on gimbals so it
- >is not really connected to the attitude of the vehicle. Then the
- >vehicle can turn any way it pleases and not be effected by the
- >flywheel. Gyroscope designers probably know all about how to do
- >this. With a really clever design these gimbals might even have
- >some built in "viscosity" to help keep the vehicle upright in an
- >accident.
-
- That's probably true, but one could also have two counter-rotating flywheels
- so the total angular momentum is zero (high bearing stresses though).
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