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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.energy,rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
- Message-ID: <77843@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 14:19:54 GMT
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- In <BzEsw7.57B@cs.uiuc.edu> morrison@cs.uiuc.edu (Vance Morrison) writes:
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- >I believe a road worthy flywheel can be made. The only question is
- >is it worth it. It might be too heavy or too expensive, or there simply
- >might be better ways of storing energy for vehicular applications.
-
- I agree with you that a road worthy flywheel could be made. I also feel
- that all of the methods you mentioned would work. I just feel that by the
- time you add enough fail safe's to the flywheel, it would either be way
- to heavy to be practicle, or would be made of so many exotic materials
- that it would cost more than most cars do today.
- --
- Mob rule doesn't become any prettier, just because the mob start to call itself
- a government.
- It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
- Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
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