🚀 go-pugleaf

wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher) writes:
>Others said:
># It doesn't sound like you have been listening either.  In the event of
># a catastrophic failure, gasoline burns, it does not explode.  The energy
># contained in the tank is released over a period of 15 to 20 minutes.
># 
># The flywheel will try to dissipate it is energy over a span of milliseconds.

>Try telling the three people who burned to death in the tanker/
>multi-car crash at the I 270/Beltway intersection that it is ok that
>gasoline burns over 15-20 minutes. That may be true, but they are still
>dead, regardless of how long their remains cooked.

True, but that resulted in localized damage.  Expend all of that
energy at once and you'll hurt more than just the people involved in
the crash.

jim frost
jimf@centerline.com