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Old 08-04-2010, 11:10 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ecofreak View Post
Coasting inertia.. also, the RPM would be lower, so the gas consumption increase to work the flywheel would be negligible. But I'm no expert here.
Well conventional wisdom is that you want to reduce weight as much as possible because you have to accelerate it, and that takes power. Flywheels have the weight that they do to make the engine run smoothly.
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