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- From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.energy,rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 15:15:53 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec13.114534.961@cmkrnl.com> <1992Dec15.004956.465@mtu.edu> <1goebdINNik@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Dec17.010235.986@cmkrnl.com>
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- In article <1992Dec17.010235.986@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
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- >
- > And even if the container does hold, we're not out of the woods yet.
- > If the container doesn't break, it is because it is able to absorb the energy.
- > Which means that the energy STILL gets turned into heat -- it's just that it
- > isn't enough heat to break the container. The container, nonetheless, is going
- > to get damned hot.
- >
- > The only way around this is to make the container so sturdy that the flywheel
- > keeps spinning in the worst collision imaginable.
-
- Not really, just up to the point where the collision is so bad that a few
- dozen kWh of flywheel energy isn't going to make a significant difference ;-)
-
- Steve
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