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Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source

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From: Mark Wilson
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:57
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In <1992Dec23.002833.19471@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com> news@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes:

>Energy has been used bending molecules, which may or may not snap back, but
>more significantly in breaking bonds which originally held the flywheel
>together.  Now if you've got the inter fiber bond strength of a material of
>carbon carbon fibers we could use for a fly wheel, your a hell of a lot 
>farther ahead that most in the carbon carbon field.  Now is this energy enough
>to make the fluff safe, I don't know, that's why I asked.  Remember that
>carbon carbon bonds are one of the strongest bonds around, thats why we
>want to use carbon carbon in the first place.  

What you have done in essence is vaporized the flywheel.  If anyone knows
the heat of vaporization of carbon-carbon please post it.

My intuition is that while it will take more energy to vaporize than does
iron, it won't absorb anywhere near enough to make a difference.

-- 
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a government.
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Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
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From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.energy,rec.autos
Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
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Date: 23 Dec 92 13:57:02 GMT
References: <1992Dec21.193621.12001@microware.com> <51694@seismo.CSS.GOV> <1992Dec22.204130.18133@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com> <51698@seismo.CSS.GOV> <1992Dec23.002833.19471@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
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