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In article <1992Dec17.173946.5374@adobe.com> pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <BzE2oz.I4H@ns1.nodak.edu> csmith@plains.NoDak.edu (Carl Smith) 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.
>>
>>Why bother, we don't wrap our gas tanks in a container that would contain
>>their explosion?
>
>Because gas tanks don't explode. Movies are not reality.

Neither is usenet speculation. But consider the opportunity presented here
to engineer a case of life imitating art (that is, if you call movies about
expoding cars art). If we can just convince everyone that flywheel powered
cars must necessarily be explosive, perhaps it will become self-fulfilling
prophecy, and any flywheel powered cars built will be explosive. Just like
in the movies. Won't the scriptwriters be pleased? Or will they?


BTW, isn't anyone going to answer my question about the temperature gauge
with no numbers? If no one can tell me how cold the coolant is when the
gauge stays at the bottom of the "normal range", I might actually have to
find out for myself ;-).


Phil Nelson . pnelson@tymix.tymnet.com . San Jose, CA, USA . 408-922-7508

	The first to present his case seems right,
	  till another comes forward and questions him.    Proverbs 18:17