Okay...so how does a flywheel battery work in a vehicle?
It seems to me that to be capable of storing any significant amount of energy,
this thing has to have a significant mass and very high speed (as you say,
about 60k RPMs) This thing has just turned into a huge gyroscope. If it were
rigidly mounted in the car, the car would probably be unable to roll at all,
and going over hills would be really fun. This seems to indicate some type of
gimbal system to allow the flywheel to stay in a single plain, no matter what
the vehicle is doing. So how do you get energy out of it if it doesn't have a
fixed rotor?
Just curious as to how this works.
I've seen a prototype car which could do 0-60 in about 8 sec and could hold 60
mph using only a 15hp engine and a hydraulic cylinder for energy storage
(regernerative brakes and all), but forget about trying to cruise at 100mph+
The drag was just too much for it, not to mention that the thing probably
would have fallen apart)
Just jabbering away on anything not involved with transmissions :P
Geoffrey Hausheer
Intel Corp.
Hillsboro, OR
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