On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, J. Chisholm wrote:

Roland Perry wrote:
In message
, at
06:30:52 on Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Mr Thant
remarked:
Batteries aren't part of the base spec. It does say "Some level of
onboard energy storage may provide an optimal solution overall"

Vary large elastic band?

It's a long time since I saw you post such a sensible proposal.

You wind it up on braking, and it could occupy all that dead space
between bogies. After all you can make airplane fly by that method...

And run cottonreel tanks!

tom

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