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Originally Posted by Christ
You might extract more energy from a flywheel if you can change it's angular momentum.
In other words, if you start with a small diameter flywheel, and make it expand as it speeds up, then extract it's energy after it's at maximum speed/diameter, you get more angular momentum. You can put less energy into it and get more out than you normally would. It just brings the energy input/output closer to equilibrium, is all.
You'd have to make it so that it only contracts once the usable energy is used up, though, so as not to lose the momentum developed prematurely.
Does this make sense? Just something I thought of.
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I like it! and it's essay to find a pre-fab, A syntactical clutch form a chain saw would do just that (may need some little adjustments)