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  2. Flywheel energy storage - Wikipedia

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    NASA G2 flywheel. Flywheel energy storage (FES) works by accelerating a rotor to a very high speed and maintaining the energy in the system as rotational energy.When energy is extracted from the system, the flywheel's rotational speed is reduced as a consequence of the principle of conservation of energy; adding energy to the system correspondingly results in an increase in the speed of the ...

  3. Flywheel storage power system - Wikipedia

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    A flywheel-storage power system uses a flywheel for energy storage, (see Flywheel energy storage) and can be a comparatively small storage facility with a peak power of up to 20 MW. It typically is used to stabilize to some degree power grids, to help them stay on the grid frequency, and to serve as a short-term compensation storage.

  4. Active Power - Wikipedia

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    Active Power was founded in 1992 as Magnetic Bearing Technologies, Inc., where the company manufactured magnetic bearings for a variety of applications.; In 1996, the company changed its name to Active Power and the following year introduced its first flywheel DC product.

  5. Flywheel - Wikipedia

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    As with other types of accumulators, a flywheel inherently smooths sufficiently small deviations in the power output of a system, thereby effectively playing the role of a low-pass filter with respect to the mechanical velocity (angular, or otherwise) of the system. More precisely, a flywheel's stored energy will donate a surge in power output ...

  6. Diesel rotary uninterruptible power supply - Wikipedia

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    Most forms of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) can be either powered by battery or flywheel energy. These are ready for immediate use at the instant that the mains electricity fails, but the relatively small and finite amount of stored energy they contain makes them suitable for short periods of use, typically in the order of a few dozen minutes to a couple of hours depending on the actual load.

  7. Joint European Torus - Wikipedia

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    Because power draw from the main grid is limited to 575 MW, two large flywheel generators were constructed to provide this necessary power. [52] Each 775-ton flywheel can spin up to 225 rpm and store 3.75 GJ, [53] roughly the same amount of kinetic energy as a train weighing 5,000 tons traveling at 140 kilometres per hour (87 mph). Each ...

  8. Drone expert has gut feeling about NJ drones being sent by an ...

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    A US Army Special Operations veteran and drone expert says it's "difficult to believe" the government knows nothing about the mysterious drones.

  9. Regenerative braking - Wikipedia

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    The first of these systems to be revealed was the Flybrid. This system weighs 24 kg and has an energy capacity of 400 kJ after allowing for internal losses. A maximum power boost of 60 kW (82 PS; 80 hp) for 6.67 seconds is available. The 240 mm diameter flywheel weighs 5.0 kg and revolves at up to 64,500 rpm.