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To: edamo who wrote (102985)	5/17/2001 1:57:54 PM
From: Terry Whitman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

In my thesis on Hybrid- electric vehicles back in 1987-88, I singled out flywheel technology as the most promising area of energy storage for electric vehicles. Have yet to see that play out- but I'm usually right in the long run. <g> I said the viability of flywheels would really depend on battery advances- and from what I seen, batteries are not that much better now than they were 14 yrs. ago. Flywheels have seen almost ZERO research, and thus have not gotten much better either. If the same efforts had been put into flywheels over the last 20 yrs. as has been spent on batteries, they would be using them extensively now, IMHO. BWDIK, TW

To: edamo who wrote (102985)	5/17/2001 2:19:53 PM
From: FR1	Respond to of 436258

don't forget "flywheel technology"....that's bound to make a come back... Yeah, I like that. No need to watch saturday night live for comedy in the next few months. The news shows will have tons of guys showing how we can get energy from ocean tides, ocean temperature differentials, solar collectors, animal manure, crops, and much more. I am sure proposals for research in cosmic ray collection are coming soon.<g> In defense of plasma, they have gotten containment fields that get them to break even energy. As I understand it, they make a small model and test until it works. Then they have to scale up and solve a whole new set of problems. It takes a long time but eventually will get there. There is a lot of argument about whether or not it will be more economical since fission has had a lot of advances. IMHO, FCEL and PLUG will make over 100% this year just on momentum. They may die later on fundamentals but this year they will make big gains on momentum.