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In article <1992Dec17.192329.25210@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, andyh@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Andrew J. Huang) writes:
=Take a 50's Caddy going 100mph.  Put it into many barrels of sand.
=Did it go BOOM?

You seem to be missing something here:  The amount of energy you'd have to
store in a flywheel to make it work as a "battery" for an EV is MANY times more
than the energy required to accelerate a 50's Caddy to 100 mph.  Further, the
flywheel's presumably going to be in something intended to contain it in the
event of a catastrophic failure.  If that container fails, it will nearly
instantaneously release much of the energy that had been stored in the
flywheel.  In other words:  Release a lot of energy inside a pressure vessel,
and allow that vessel to fail.  BOOM!  Really?

=Take a loaded tractor-trailer with bad brakes.  Put it down a mountain
=road.  Send it up the "Failed Brakes" escape road.  Did it go BOOM?

Try picking a vaguely valid analogy next time, will you?
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