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- From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.energy,rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 01:28:20 GMT
- Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
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- Message-ID: <1hb3nkINNmgv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <78564@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> <1992Dec22.214616.27043@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <78580@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
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- Others said:
- # It doesn't sound like you have been listening either. In the event of
- # a catastrophic failure, gasoline burns, it does not explode. The energy
- # contained in the tank is released over a period of 15 to 20 minutes.
- #
- # The flywheel will try to dissipate it is energy over a span of milliseconds.
-
- Errr,
- Try telling the three people who burned to death in the tanker/
- multi-car crash at the I 270/Beltway intersection that it is ok that
- gasoline burns over 15-20 minutes. That may be true, but they are still
- dead, regardless of how long their remains cooked.
- --
- A host is a host from coast to coast..wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
- & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
- Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
- is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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