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- From: dag@col.hp.com (David Geiser)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 19:22:03 GMT
- Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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- I can just see myself in the next energy crunch, skulking along
- at night with my portable flywheel/generator/motor and magnetic
- contacts (called leeches in the future vernacular), looking for
- some unprotected flywheel to bleed down.
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- or
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- How about some kind of emergency windup on the flywheel, a gear
- and ratchet rope/pulley similar to lawn mowers. A folding arm to
- throw the rope over, and a loop in the end for one's foot.
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- Let's see, step-lift 200lbs, 2ft high, how many times to get the
- car to a spinup station? Yo! Mama! Forget that diet! This is
- one time pounds are positive!
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