I wish I knew what the novelty added was. The article was useless - it referred to MW of storage with no reference to energy (a low inductance capacitor can do that). Until I see some true novelty introduced, I would not get excited about mechanical storage.
In the scheme of things, from any of the energy density measures, those solutions that rely on molecular bonds are the least dense (mechanical systems). Those solutions that rely on atomic bonds are more energy dense (chemical storage), and those solutions that rely on nuclear interaction are the most energy dense. In other words, the closer you get to the nucleus (including interacting with the nucleus, the more energy dense you get. Flywheels fail at and are limited by molecular bond strength. Bob On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > See: > > http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/articles/2016/lancaster- > engineering-student-designs-revolutionary-energy-storage-solution/ >
