----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olin Lathrop" <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [TECH] Nice accumulator


> Electron wrote:
>> So far I imagined to build and use such a device at home, but I never
>> thought it to be really feasible nor that it was already invented,
>> and even used with great results! I thought it was just a product of
>> my imagination, instead..
>
> A local company, Beacon Power (http://www.beaconpower.com) is using
> flywheels for short term power grid storage and peaking.  Individual units
> are 100KWh.  They have or are building plants with a bunch of these to
> rapidly respond essentially instantly to short term power demand
> fluctuations.  Large power plants take minutes to hours to respond to 
> demand
> changes.

Interesting stuff, wish they used them around my area, always seem to be 
getting fluctuations, lights dimming etc recently. 


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