Ultra High Voltage DC Power Transmission.

One way to deal with it is to have a pair of flywheels, contra-rotating. Adds cost and complication, and needs clever bearing design.

I believe there was a significant gyro effect in taking off single engined WW2 fighters. In twin engined airliners, do they have left and right handed spools?

I can assure you that I don't know one end of a paintbrush from a load of Jackson Pollocks. Art student thinking indeed!...

Merely a difference of degree, not of principle.

Of course it's there, I just wrote that above. Tell me, where did you do ~your~ art degree?

There's nothing especially novel about gyroscopic-powered machines. The Sentinel Waggon Works in Shrewsbury produced a few prototype shunting engines in the 1950's, and I remember them or similar being featured in The Eagle comic from about that time. See

Gosh, do bicycle wheels rotate at 100,000 rpm? Who knew!

very hard on the bearings. The combined effects may cancel, but only via the shafts..

Sometimes, but they aren't as massive as those fighter props were. Or WWI rotary engines...

That is the point. ArtStudents think in principles, Engineers deal with degrees.

Well thass the thing, innit. I expect chummy will insist that if a stream is exhibiting laminar flow at low water volumes, it will continue to do so after a heavy storm increases the water flow 100-fold. Merely a difference of degree.

I'll let that pass.

Without wishing to be the least bit boastful, this particular "ArtStudent" was, in a previous existence, a computer hardware engineer. I prefer an oscilloscope to a potful of paint brushes.

I think that you are dismissive of people who want to join in; why is that?

"Chummy" would do nothing of the sort. "Chummy" would debate the topic rather than resorting to ad hominem slurs. Regrettably, in this instance I think the time for that has now passed.

I will leave you two gentlemen to your cosy chat.

I am dismissive of people who think in principles, not in magnitudes.

A butterfly clapping its wings in a rain forest in Brazil can cause a hurricane in New Orleans. Ergo the precautionary principle insists we kill all Brazilian Butterflies!

That's Climate Change Seance innit?

Indeed, degree in Engineering or a degree in "something arty"

The trouble with computer programmers, is that Bool didn't put anything between 0 and 1.

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Isn't that a rather binary opinion ?

Adrian

In that case, I'll consider myself dismissed.

Absurd non sequitur.

Indeed.

That's Climate Seance, for you, though.

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Hmm, I think there might be. *Flywheel* powered ones have certainly been done before.

Tim

I see no reason to doubt that it could.

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