Making The Most Of Flywheels
Flywheel batteries are coming back in style, and at full blast. New technologies and materials are turning into realistic flywheel applications that would have been impossible just a few years ago. The new spinning discs are quite different from ... [... more]
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Centerforce - FLYWHEELS ~ CFC 700100
 Centerforce - FLYWHEELS ~ CFC 700100Centerforce Flywheels both billet steel and aluminum for popular Domestic and import auto and truck applications can now be used in racing.All Centerforce flywheels have SFI certification [... more]
$508.89
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Web Exclusive: Potter's Wheels
The wood-framed treadle wheel is a more recent design development. A crankshaft system, driven by the seated potter’s rocking left foot, allows momentum to transfer to the wheel head. A lightweight flywheel assists the rhythmic foot motion to ... [... more]
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Gyro Bike: Preventing Scraped Knees
These Dartmouth College engineering students are battling scraped knees, one two-wheeler at a time. To help kids learn to ride a bike, the team placed a flywheel inside the front wheel of a 16-incher. Once it's set to spinning with a drill, the ... [... more]
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Eco-Disco: Self-Sufficient Dance Floor To Power First ...
When clubbers press down on the spring-loaded floor, it dips about 2 cm and activates a flywheel, which starts to capture the kinetic energy of their bumping and grinding and convert it to electricity, similar to the electro-mechanical process of ... [... more]
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Giant Heavy-Lifting Gyroplanes: June 2004 Cover Story
Where Groen uses tip-jets to provide the energy needed for vertical flight, Carter uses 900 pounds of tip-mounted weight. Before takeoff, the rotor is accelerated to 128 rpm. "The tip weights store energy like a flywheel," Carter explains. & ... [... more]
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Aura Systems' Add-On Flywheel Alternator Starter
An unusual combination product that became available recently is Aura Systems' Flywheel Alternator Starter, or FAS for short. Also marketed as Aura GenPower, it's priced at less than $1000 and is currently an aftermarket product designed to ... [... more]
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Flywheel Powers A Tram
The 34-passenger tram draws power from a low-voltage charging point located at each passenger stop. The flywheel reaches maximum speed as passengers board and exit, and then releases the stored energy as it glides toward its next stop. Recharge ... [... more]
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Hays 10-132 Flywheel,Chevrolet 30 Lb Steel
Flywheel, Steel, 30lb, 168 Gear Teeth, Detroit (External) Balance, With Lage Bell Housing, Performance [... more]
$450.00
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Hays 12-735 Flywheel, Ford 30 Lb Steel
FLYWHEEL, STEEL, 30LB, 164 GEAR TEETH, DETROIT (EXTERNAL) BALANCE, PERFORMANCE [... more]
$450.00
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Hays 20130 Aluminum Flywheel
Flywheel, Aluminum, Neutral (Internal) Balance, With Large Bell Housing, Performance [... more]
$642.46
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Hays 10-330 Flywheel, Chevrolet (30Lb Steel)
Flywheel, Steel, 30lb, 153 Gear Teeth, Neutral (Internal) Balance, With Small Bell Housing, Performance [... more]
$399.13
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