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- From: pnelson@cobra.Tymnet.COM (Phil Nelson)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.energy,rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
- Message-ID: <3010@tymix.Tymnet.COM>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 22:26:00 GMT
- References: <1goebdINNik@gap.caltech.edu> <BzE2oz.I4H@ns1.nodak.edu> <1992Dec17.173946.5374@adobe.com>
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- In article <1992Dec17.173946.5374@adobe.com> pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
- >In article <BzE2oz.I4H@ns1.nodak.edu> csmith@plains.NoDak.edu (Carl Smith) writes:
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- >>>Unless you wrap the flywheel in a massive enough container that it can absorb
- >>>all that energy without vaporizing, you're going to have an explosion.
- >>
- >>Why bother, we don't wrap our gas tanks in a container that would contain
- >>their explosion?
- >
- >Because gas tanks don't explode. Movies are not reality.
-
- Neither is usenet speculation. But consider the opportunity presented here
- to engineer a case of life imitating art (that is, if you call movies about
- expoding cars art). If we can just convince everyone that flywheel powered
- cars must necessarily be explosive, perhaps it will become self-fulfilling
- prophecy, and any flywheel powered cars built will be explosive. Just like
- in the movies. Won't the scriptwriters be pleased? Or will they?
-
-
- BTW, isn't anyone going to answer my question about the temperature gauge
- with no numbers? If no one can tell me how cold the coolant is when the
- gauge stays at the bottom of the "normal range", I might actually have to
- find out for myself ;-).
-
-
- Phil Nelson . pnelson@tymix.tymnet.com . San Jose, CA, USA . 408-922-7508
-
- The first to present his case seems right,
- till another comes forward and questions him. Proverbs 18:17
-