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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
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- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 15:30:57 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.194558.2556@adobe.com> <1992Dec16.192456.6261@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1goebdINNik@gap.caltech.edu>,<BzE2oz.I4H@ns1.nodak.edu> <1gp8c9INNik@gap.caltech.edu> <BzEsw7.57B@cs.uiuc.edu> <olsen.32.724613003@vetmed.cvm.uiuc.edu>
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- In <olsen.32.724613003@vetmed.cvm.uiuc.edu> olsen@vetmed.cvm.uiuc.edu (Aart_Olsen) writes:
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- |In article <BzEsw7.57B@cs.uiuc.edu> morrison@cs.uiuc.edu (Vance Morrison) writes:
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- |>1) Slow down the rate of energy dumping. ...
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- |This is what laboratory ultracentrifuges do. Usually the rotor housing
- |is contained in a thick bronze casing which "slowly" absorbs the kinetic
- |energy. I once heard an ultracentrifuge blow, and it sounded like a freight
- |train for maybe five minutes. Lab centrifuges contain a surprising
- |amount of energy--even though they have relatively small rotors and big
- |motors they take quite a while to get up to speed because so much has to
- |be pumped into them.
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- Do you happen to know how much one of the little beasties weighs.
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- 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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