Engineers at Kinetic Traction Systems Inc. in Chatsworth, Calif., (www.kinetictraction.com) are developing flywheels to store energy recouped from braking Engineers at Kinetic Traction Systems Inc. in ...
Engine manufacturer Ricardo normally doesn't go seeking attention from the press. While it supplies engines to everyone from the biggest heavy equipment makers to McLaren sports cars, the U.K.-based ...
The US has some impressive flywheel energy storage plants. The largest of these is the 20 MW Beacon Power flywheel station ...
TYNGSBORO, Mass., June 21, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Beacon Power Corporation (Nasdaq:BCON), a leading provider of advanced products and services to support a more stable, reliable and efficient ...
Ricardo, Artemis Intelligent Power and Bombardier Transportation have conducted a project called DDFlyTrain, which showed that a flywheel-based energy recovery system could reduce fuel consumption on ...
It's no secret that the successful future of wind, solar and other renewable sources hinges on the development of cost effective energy storage systems. Of the technologies currently in play, ...
Earlier this year at the Detroit Auto Show, we heard about Porsche’s hybrid race car that garners energy from a flywheel, and now a consortium called Flybus has put that energy reusing technology into ...
R. J. Hayes, D. A. Weeks, M. M. Flynn, J. H. Beno, A. M. Guenin, J. J. Zierer and T. Stifflemire The University of Texas Center for Electromechanics (UT-CEM) has ...
The system works with uninterruptible power supplies and delivers up to 190-kW power and up to 2,700-kW/sec energy. The unit, which weighs only 1,300 lb, seamlessly transfers to an engine generator ...