🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <78564@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:
>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.
>
>-- 

If the flywheel were made out of neutrinos then if it disintegrated the
neutrinos would fly through the housing, the driver, the bystanders, and light
years of lead with negligible interaction.  

Of course, the car would have to be equipped with a neutrino detector to tell
the driver that his flywheel had disintegrated, especially if there are 20 of
'em, and that he has to go to a service station.

Neutrino dectors weigh hundreds of tons and involve toxic substances like
carbon tetrachloride.  There's also the problem that YOUR neutrino detector
would blip if either the sun went supernova or some OTHER driver's flywheel
blew.

Oh, well, back to the drawing board. 

 ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

-dk