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Subject: Re: Disk Striping (description and references) plus class brief
Message-ID: <164@umich.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 12:45:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 13 12:45:18 1987
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Reply-To: cja@crim.eecs.umich.edu.UUCP (Charles J. Antonelli)
Organization: EECS, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
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In article <2838@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	I understand that in big power plants, the insides of the
>generators are filled with hydrogen instead of air because the speed of
>sound is faster so the rotor tips don't go supersonic.  Apparantly, as long
>as you keep oxygen away, there is no danger of explosion.

Yeh, I'll bet the designers of the Hindenburg had the same attitude.

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