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In <olsen.32.724613003@vetmed.cvm.uiuc.edu> olsen@vetmed.cvm.uiuc.edu (Aart_Olsen) writes:

|In article <BzEsw7.57B@cs.uiuc.edu> morrison@cs.uiuc.edu (Vance Morrison) writes:

|>1) Slow down the rate of energy dumping. ...

|This is what laboratory ultracentrifuges do.  Usually the rotor housing
|is contained in a thick bronze casing which "slowly" absorbs the kinetic 
|energy.  I once heard an ultracentrifuge blow, and it sounded like a freight
|train for maybe five minutes.  Lab centrifuges contain a surprising
|amount of energy--even though they have relatively small rotors and big 
|motors they take quite a while to get up to speed because so much has to 
|be pumped into them. 

Do you happen to know how much one of the little beasties weighs.

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