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by hansel_der 1279 days ago
turbochargers are rather popular thou
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Turbochargers are pretty light weight by comparison. The energy they store is minimal - they're just there to shunt more air into the engine, not provide 20kW on demand.
Turbocharger fans/impellers are not offset weights though but perfectly balanced and they are also lightweight.

A flywheel on the other hand is intentionally unbalanced, an offset weight, kind of like a clock pendulum spinning really fast, making it incredibly dangerous when something does go wrong. It basically becomes a centrifugal slingshot.

No, flywheels for this kind of energy storage are not "intentionally unbalanced", rather the opposite. Where did you get that idea?!