Re: Bicycle Wheel for toroid?

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Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <davep-at-quik-dot-com>


I would suggest that a bicycle wheel, used alone, is likely to be an
ineffectual toroid.  A toroid needs to have large radius of curvature,
to cut down corona losses.  A 'wheel': rim spokes, hub has way too
many 'sharp' surfaces.  A wheel used as a mount for some sort of
tubular 'thing' (drier duct, whatever) sounds plausible.

best
 dwp