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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.energy,rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
- Message-ID: <78564@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:23:42 GMT
- References: <Bz6nuM.LCo@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Dec19.065254.8562@athena.mit.edu> <1992Dec19.192819.1816@adobe.com> <1992Dec21.193621.12001@microware.com>
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- In <1992Dec21.193621.12001@microware.com> troyf@microware.com (Troy Frericks) writes:
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- |>If I were a terrorist, I would drool at the thought of being able to
- |>get such wonderful bombs so easily... All you'd have to do is arrange
- |>for the vacuum valve to be opened on command or the magnetic bearing
- |>to be turned off, etc.
- |>
- |>BOOM!
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- |Modern composit materials, when used in a flywheel, will disintegrate
- |with such a failuar. This bomb would be about as wonderful as some
- |fiber-glass insulation falling out of your attic.
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- You haven't been listening have you?
- It doesn't matter what form the flywheel takes after disintegration.
- It could even turn into a gas or sub-atomic particles. What causes the
- BOOM is all of that kinetic energy being turned into heat.
-
- --
- 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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