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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy,sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
- Message-ID: <78150@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:13:46 GMT
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- In <gfBCW0a00YUn84A25_@andrew.cmu.edu> geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew) writes:
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- |OK. Here is one *I* would like to see. How about flywheel application
- |in uninterruptable power supplies? The energy density should be a lot
- |higher, *and* they should be a lot lower maintenance. I think someone
- |mentioned drawing power directly from the flywheel (basically using it
- |as a generator). could this concept be broadened where you have both
- |a power-in and a power-out path going at the same time? Wouldn't this
- |also tend to stop power surges and so forth? Am I simply stupid?
-
- Sounds like an interesting idea to me. Make one end of the flywheel a motor
- driven by line current. Make the other end a generator that powers your
- computer, or whatever. Output is electrically isolated from the input, and
- the mass of the flywheel will even out the surges and dropouts.
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- Mob rule doesn't become any prettier, just because the mob start to call itself
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- Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
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