🚀 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.
>
	And gasoline isn't explosive? 
	I may be mistaken but any power source capable of propelling
	a ton or more at speeds greater than 50 mph for hundreds of 
	miles must have a significant amount of energy in it. 

	Brian Barkey