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by cop359 5204 days ago
Forget about superconductivity.

How about flywheels?

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Flywheels are for energy storage, not transmission.
Heh. Never underestimate the power of a station wagon full of flywheels hurtling down the highway?
Steering a car full of gyroscopes in fast moving traffic? Sign me up!
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.
just let them roll to their destination!
I think he means install them for each house, store the non-peak surplus energy, and then use it during peak times.