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 ...
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World’s largest flywheel energy storage system with 30 MW output connected to grid
The US has some impressive flywheel energy storage plants. The largest of these is the 20 MW Beacon Power flywheel station ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
We’ve seen it in Formula 1 over the years, and Porsche has relatively successfully implanted one in its 911 GT3 R Hybrid race cars, but now Volvo is testing one with an aim to bring it to the world of ...
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 ...
Powering a satellite with batteries can limit the spacecraft's operational life to about five years. A mechanical alternative, the flywheel, can store more energy and be reused more often than ...
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 ...
Christoph Thetard has developed a mechanical flywheel drive to power a set of kitchen appliances for his Diploma in Product Design at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. The kitchen machine, coffee ...
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