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Throwaway idea: Maybe it can be an energy-storage flywheel at the same time?
by AnthonBerg 3y ago
Throwaway idea: Maybe it can be an energy-storage flywheel at the same time?
- cyann 3y agoFlywheel are efficient for high power in short duration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage Usually used during a short period of time before the diesel generator can be fully operational.
- cwillu 3y agoThe nature of ball milling makes it a very inefficient flywheel: The energy of the wheel is going into repeatedly lifting the material. That energy is lost: it's not transferring that energy back into the rotational energy of the wheel every time it falls, but into breaking up the material against the bottom of the wheel, more or less perpendicularly to the direction of the wheel's travel at that point.
- Timothycquinn 3y agoMaybe they can put these near power plants and use for power factor correction.