sportscar flywheel Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:16:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Torotrak's Flywheel System Could Be Cheaper Alternative to Hybrid Car Batteries https://www.greenoptimistic.com/torotrak-flywheel-battery-20091104/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/torotrak-flywheel-battery-20091104/#respond Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:16:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5194 Flywheels are known to be very good mechanical energy storage devices. They have a certain weight and, by spinning, they capture the energy in their momentum. That energy can be released by electromagnetic means and transformed into electricity.

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