Jed,
I played around with super flywheels in my youth, wanting to use one to
power a car. I wish I could see what Abigail Carson has come up with
that is new. It is a well explored field and I doubt that there are
many possibilities to improve the structure of the flywheel itself.
I'm guessing that the suspension is using permanent magnets but there
are problems holding the magnets in the rotating part due to the
centrifugal force.
The other problem is transferring the energy. Possibly using static
coils? A motor/generator won't run at that speed due to the centrifugal
forces.
On 8/4/2016 10:54 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
See:
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/articles/2016/lancaster-engineering-student-designs-revolutionary-energy-storage-solution/
