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Originally Posted by bennelson
There is some really interesting research using large flywheels as energy storage devices.
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Now this is not a flywheel as in the thing at the end of your engine. It is a HIGH RPM device made of fancy space age stuff.
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I know what you're talking about, they were going to use them to store generated electricity. When you are producing power, the flywheel accelerates, and when you want power, the flywheel runs a generator. Lots of mass and insane rpms.
The bearings were either magnetic or air, can't recall :/ but its what made them possible.