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In <1h7r1iINNqo5@access.usask.ca> choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.) writes:

|The particles will fly off linearly, but what if the housing surrounding the
|flywheel was turning? Then the breaking flywheel may just cause the housing
|to turn faster. The flywheel particle momentum is lost with a less
|forceful impact (prolonged impact) because the turning housing is moving at
|a lower speed relative to the flywheel particles (which in turn move at a
|lower speed relative to the housing). It's a flywheel inside a flywheel inside
|a flywheel.

Unless the vessel is spinning at a significant fraction of the rotors
velocity, there will not be time to transfer a significant amount of energy
to it, before the shock waves tear it apart.  Then again if it were spinning
that fast, it would already be under a lot of stress and would need less
of a shock to cause a catastrophic failure.

Sounds like your working on the idea of multiple flywheels, so that each
wheel needs to carry less kinetic energy.

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