From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Aug 26 2003 - 19:16:34 MDT
--- Kevin Freels <megaquark@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I read somewhere a few years ago about a guy that
> came up with an electric
> vehicle design augmented by a flywheel engine. This
> design was supposed to
> keep the same power available for quick, high-power
> takeoffs since the
> flywheel was always running.
>
> Does anyone remember reading baout this? I think it
> was Discover magazine.
> What ever happened to that? It seemed at the time to
> be the solution to the
> problem of electric cars ebeing under-powered.
It was useful for moment-to-moment energy storage, but
the real problem of electrics was overall power
storage. Commercially available flywheels can't
store that much more power than batteries at the
moment - though I emphasize *commercially available*.
There are promising solutions in the lab, but if you
can't get your hands on one - even if you're a car
manufacturing megacorp - you can't use it in your
products. (Perhaps better: if you can't get bulk
orders of them delivered to your factories...)
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