I recall the Rosen brothers built a flywheel generator and found it did make the car handle very strange and took a lot of engineering and 24 million dollars before they pulled they plug so to speak.
I was thinking about that too. It would have a gyroscopic effect on handling and turning corners. But surely if there were two wheels turning in opposite directs that could be canceled out.
I've visited a nuclear powerplant and we've been told that modern powerplants can shut themselves down fully in a couple of seconds. Also, it's used in my country for adjusting the input to the consumption, so it's for sure not slow to adjust.
This is an interesting video and I am surprised flywheels have not bene more widely discussed in renewable energy systems. Slight error in the video is saying coal plants are not flexible. Once hot, they are very flexible and its actually how a grid like the UK was so stable. The massive amount of rotating steel in coal fired power station or gas fired power station turbines provided inertia to drive the grid through small fluctuations. The place that flywheels could operate in the grid is to act as providers of inertia and 'peak loppers' which we need as renewables dominate the grid. In the same way as pump storage units, open cycle gas units or diesel engines do now. Storing 2 - 4 hours of energy when demand is low, then releasing it to generate over the peak demand each day would be a good application and then using its inertia to stabilise the grid at other times.
I recall the Rosen brothers built a flywheel generator and found it did make the car handle very strange and took a lot of engineering and 24 million dollars before they pulled they plug so to speak.
I was thinking about that too. It would have a gyroscopic effect on handling and turning corners. But surely if there were two wheels turning in opposite directs that could be canceled out.
I've visited a nuclear powerplant and we've been told that modern powerplants can shut themselves down fully in a couple of seconds. Also, it's used in my country for adjusting the input to the consumption, so it's for sure not slow to adjust.
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Porsche tried to use this technology - 911 997.2 GT3R Hybrid
TI can't change time for love
They straight up stole the bike video from the dude
They stole the whole video from several creators
I apologize I am love
This is an interesting video and I am surprised flywheels have not bene more widely discussed in renewable energy systems.
Slight error in the video is saying coal plants are not flexible. Once hot, they are very flexible and its actually how a grid like the UK was so stable. The massive amount of rotating steel in coal fired power station or gas fired power station turbines provided inertia to drive the grid through small fluctuations. The place that flywheels could operate in the grid is to act as providers of inertia and 'peak loppers' which we need as renewables dominate the grid. In the same way as pump storage units, open cycle gas units or diesel engines do now. Storing 2 - 4 hours of energy when demand is low, then releasing it to generate over the peak demand each day would be a good application and then using its inertia to stabilise the grid at other times.