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Re: Electric motorcycles aren't safe

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From: Bruce Richmond
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:17
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On Sep 15, 7:47 pm, barb <xenub...@netscape.net> wrote:
> Morrgaine wrote:
> > On Sep 15, 10:11?am, barb <xenub...@netscape.net> wrote:
> >> Gilchrist wrote:
> >>> What do we learn from this?
> >> That 'killacycle' is a great play on kilocycle?
>
> > Not really. Killacycle is powered by batteries, which put out DC
> > current, not AC.
> > So there is no phase alternation to cycle at any frequency.
>
> I still maintain that it's a pun gone horribly wrong. (not unlike that
> demo that left the inventor spreadeagled on the tarmac.)

Like maybe derived from "kilowatt" which works for either AC or DC.
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From:  Bruce Richmond <bsr3997@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Electric motorcycles aren't safe
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:17:02 -0700
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