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Old 12-11-2008, 04:51 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Really?

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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
"Chrysler abandoned research on flywheels do to safety and liability issues..."

Really? Or was that just an excuse? After all, they (like the rest of the not-so-big any more 3) sure managed to find reasons to give up on every efficiency-increasing device that came along, from electric cars & Stirling engines on down to just simply making smaller cars.

If you do some searching on high-speed flywheels, you'll find there's quite a bit of ongoing research, with systems having been installed in (or planned for) in busses and trains.
I thought perhaps noCo2 was actually serious about attempting this on own car and I felt an obligation to share info which might broaden their view.I'm all for progress but not at the cost of innocent lives.Chrysler's report carried grave implications about flywheel technology and unless noCo2 has their own test track,I don't want to be within a country mile of their experiments."To know and not tell makes cowards of men" Abraham Lincoln.
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