After years of being billed as the next great revolutionary means of propulsion, flywheels may finally be ready for prime time. Aside from a few modest successes, flywheels have not lived up to this ...

It's no secret that the successful future of wind, solar and other renewable sources hinges on the development of cost effective energy storage systems. Of the technologies currently in play, ...

CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kinetic Traction Systems, Inc. (KTSi) launches with innovative clean energy storage and recycling systems for mass transit rail. KTSi’s proprietary flywheel ...

Today, high-performance clutch design is so sophisticated, and manufacturers' claims often so conflicting, that it's difficult to know just what type of clutch is best for your particular application.

• Next-generation flywheels will be capable of megawatt-level energy storage. • Beacon Power’s hubless flywheel will require a breakthrough in magnet design. The ability to store electricity for later ...

Christoph Thetard has developed a mechanical flywheel drive to power a set of kitchen appliances for his Diploma in Product Design at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. The kitchen machine, coffee ...

Instead of using discrete permanent magnets to form the rotor of a flywheel’s integrated motor/generator, magnetic powder is mixed into the composite matrix. After the flywheel has been manufactured ...

Rickety, squeaky, flimsy, bendable, breakable. The low-priced, home-model versions of elliptical machines have always earned lousy adjectives. But this season has seen the rise of several exceptions ...