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cop359
5204 days ago
Forget about superconductivity.
How about flywheels?
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rosser
5204 days ago
Flywheels are for energy
storage
, not transmission.
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gmaslov
5204 days ago
Heh. Never underestimate the power of a station wagon full of flywheels hurtling down the highway?
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wlesieutre
5204 days ago
Steering a car full of gyroscopes in fast moving traffic? Sign me up!
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i2pi
5204 days ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus
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wlesieutre
5198 days ago
That's really cool, I'd never heard of these. I imagine the flywheels are horizontal so that the bus can turn without trying to change their angular momentum, but I wonder if there's any effect on banked curves or going up hills.
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JoelMcCracken
5204 days ago
just let them roll to their destination!
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Andaith
5204 days ago
I think he means install them for each house, store the non-peak surplus energy, and then use it during peak times.
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