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In article <1goebdINNik@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Dec16.192456.6261@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, andyh@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Andrew J. Huang) writes:
>=In article <1992Dec15.194558.2556@adobe.com> pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>
>Unless you wrap the flywheel in a massive enough container that it can absorb
>all that energy without vaporizing, you're going to have an explosion.

This guy is correct.

As an interesting side light, the largest forging ever made is 
the largest flywheel ever that stores energy at MIT for the 
ALCATORC-MOD fusion reactor.  It takes like 500 hp all night to spin it up, 
and 3 seconds to stop when the switch is flipped.  

Yeah, megajoules, many of them.  If there was a quake when the thing
was spinning, it would remove a large section of Cambridge.  

Its surface speed is just below the speed of sound, and it weighs like
a very large steam locomotive ; and its right next to the FISSION
reactor..... they know there is no way to stop it if there is a quake,
so its just in a simple flimsy building.

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