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Bob wrote:

...we could be talking about a LOT of energy. Especially considering
it takes a 100HP motor over an hour to spin it up!

100HPx746Wx3600s = 3 billion joules. How much is that in dynamite? :-)

Nick


I believe it is a couple hundred sticks of the stuff, maybe a whole ton
of it. Although, it is the frissance of the dynamite, not the energy
that makes it dangerous. Your typical chocolate chip cookie contains
more chemical energy than a stick of dynamite. About the only way to
fully realize this is to notice how flour, with an incendiary trigger,
can make an adequite fuel air explosive.