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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?
by 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[dead]
- hansel_der 4y agoturbochargers are rather popular thou
- XorNot 4y agoTurbochargers 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 agoTurbocharger 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 agoNo, flywheels for this kind of energy storage are not "intentionally unbalanced", rather the opposite. Where did you get that idea?!