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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?!