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Mac - Why will the bond market crash in 15 days?
Because having the sovereign inject "unlimited dollars" into the system
is mathematically impossible.
The attempt will kill it.
The flywheel turning at enormous rpm will cause internal magnetism and stresses that would cause a solid block of metal to explode.
Do we have massive hyper inflation or massive deflation.
http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-238379.html
Like trying to get too much energy, too fast out of a spinning flywheel,
the flywheel will explode.
"A flywheel will only store energy; not 'generate' it. As all good physics pupils know, energy cannot be created.
You could create such a device, but it would be an incredible feat in engineering; and I'm not quite sure what the point would be. Its large mass would (depending on speed) hold a large amount of energy; but remember; the amount of energy you can get from it will always be a bit less than the amount you put in to get it spinning in the first place."
"TVP45
Jun2-08, 06:50 PM
At that radius, any known material would explode by the time you got up to a decent speed."
"The flywheel, once in motion, can only store the energy which you put into it. In otherwords, it is moving very fast and has a massive amount of energy BECAUSE you put it there. The wheel won't turn if no force is applied -- once applied, it now has EXACTLY the amount of energy you just applied. When you "extract energy" from it, you're simply taking back the energy you put there in the first place (not to mention you just lost some in the form of heat, so actually you won't even get that back!)
Massive Hyper inflation and massive deflation. It looks to me like
the sovereign is trying to balance the two against each other.