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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by rosser on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @02:10PM (#3699611)
Flywheels are for energy storage, not transmission.
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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by gmaslov on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @02:31PM (#3699697)
Heh. Never underestimate the power of a station wagon full of flywheels hurtling down the highway?
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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by wlesieutre on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @03:25PM (#3699939)
Steering a car full of gyroscopes in fast moving traffic? Sign me up!
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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by i2pi on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @05:55PM (#3700578)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus
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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by wlesieutre on Monday March 19, 2012 @11:12PM (#3727639)
That's really cool, I'd never heard of these. I imagine the flywheels are horizontal so that the bus can turn without trying to change their angular momentum, but I wonder if there's any effect on banked curves or going up hills.
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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by JoelMcCracken on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @02:20PM (#3699654)
just let them roll to their destination!
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Re:Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to chall... by Andaith on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @04:28PM (#3700256)
I think he means install them for each house, store the non-peak surplus energy, and then use it during peak times.
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