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To: StanX Long who wrote (58602)	1/10/2002 2:54:50 PM
From: Kirk ©	of 70976

OT You would be doing "Work" on the wire loop...slowing down the cars so nothing is free. The best "free" energy idea I've see is a flywheel in a car that you use to store energy as you break... Rather then heat the breaks, you speed up the flywheel with a transmission, slowing the car. Then when you want to start, you engage the transmission and use the flywheel to help get going again where thermal engines are not very efficient. BIG problem is safety. The flywheel spins at perhaps 20,000 RPM and in a crash, it can be deadly if it gets loose. I think it also acts as a gyro so turning might be interesting. I suppose the answer here is have several to net out to zero. Kirk (always fun to talk ideas for better efficiency) out

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