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In <1992Dec21.193621.12001@microware.com> troyf@microware.com (Troy Frericks) writes:

|>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!

|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.

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.

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