Is it reinventing the wheel again or is the principal different from the old
technology?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel>Tamas


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Oli Glaser <oli.glaser@talktalk.net> wrote:

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> From: "Olin Lathrop" <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>
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> Subject: Re: [TECH] Nice accumulator
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> > 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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