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In article <57411@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> fredl@strobe.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Fred Leffingwell) writes:
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>	There is a lot of speculation on this subject and not much
>	aggreement.

I'll agree on this point.

>	My thought is - haven't any of the tests been run to the 
>	failure point?  Have any actual working prototypes been 
>	built?  It would seem not.  This was easy to understand 

Yes they have been built and they presumably have been tested to
failure.  However, I read it in a newspaper report which I have since
tossed and cannot provide conclusive references.  Either the flywheel
"con"s are not aware of the report or they dispute it.

>	So Is the real reason for not storing energy in a flywheel
>	the danger?  If so why the comments that the things simply
>	fail in a cotton candy like fluff?

This is the main point of dispute.  "Pro"s like me believe the testing
that showed failure dissipating into fluff.  "Con"s believe that
failure means BOOM.  Without a controlled test, its all speculative,
regardless of the quality of analysis we apply.

>	Fred Leffingwell (fredl@olivetti.com)

A clarification, as Carl surmised, is that I really don't believe in
EV per se, but rather in using the flywheel as a power "capacitor" in
between a small, efficient IC engine and the driveshaft.  By storing
mechanical energy in a FW over a large time, we can dump it in 100hp
bursts for acceleration.

-andy huang