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• ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  No way!? A spinning offset mass rotating at tends of thousands of RPMs is dangerous to have in your average consumer car? Who could have thought?
  • canadianfella 4y ago
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  • hansel_der 4y ago
    turbochargers are rather popular thou
    • XorNot 4y ago
      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.
    • ChuckNorris89 4y ago
      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.
      • detaro 4y ago
        No, flywheels for this kind of energy storage are not "intentionally unbalanced", rather the opposite. Where did you get that idea?!
• stefs 4y ago
  but isn't that true for all high energy storage (to a certain degree)?
  • Gigachad 4y ago
    No, what matters is how quickly the energy can be released. A candle stick has a higher energy density than TNT. And it’s obviously not a bomb.