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I wrote:
>Re. the exploding flywheel: I was mulling on flash-filling the
>cavity with thick-setting foam, but I imagine that the response
>time is way too long compared with the split of the wheel.
>Comments?

Lydick:
: Even if the response time weren't too long, this "foam" would merely be yet
: another thing for the flywheel fragments to vaporize, and would almost
: certainly only exacerbate the problem.  Why do so many people have so little
: grasp of the amount of energy we're talking about, here?

Arrogant prating becomes you, sweetie. Nice to see a preacher here 'bouts.

The largest difference, in any case, between the "exploding gasoline"
scenarios and the broken flywheel is not the energy but the instantaneous
power - probably between 8 and 10 orders, depending.

The energy dissipation within the volume of the container tends to zero
for a vacuum; most of it occurs at the container walls. If one could
spread out the volume of energy dissipation, the chances of containment
are concomitantly higher. Despite this fact, I don't *really* think foam
is going to do it.
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