Flywheel Hybrid Technology Video

Torotrak is a UK-based company that's developing a technology called a flywheel hybrid. Instead of using a big, heavy battery to store energy, the Torotrak system uses a spinning flywheel. It's simple and lightweight compared to traditional electric hybrids, and it's even going to be used in Formula One race cars. There's no word yet if any automakers are signing up, but if it starts winning races you can bet they'll be all over it.

Good luck on F-1? ...
Good luck on F-1? for your company !

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Is that? George Bush

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Steady I Really Like This Video Instead of using a big, heavy battery to store energy, the Torotrak system uses a spinning flywheel.?

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Good, I like that you share this video, I wish success always Instead of using a big, heavy? battery to store energy, the Torotrak system uses a spinning flywheel.

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NASA uses flywheels ...
NASA uses flywheels for? power generation on some long range probes and satellites. The International Space station stores power generated by the solar cells with flywheels.

i dont get? it
i dont get? it

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I'll surprise you this car was made in 1950 in the Soviet Union, Soviet scientists and worked until 1960, then in 1963 a new flywheel super flywheel. ? ??? ?????? ????? ?????? ???? ??????? ? 1950 ???? ? ????????? ?????, ?????????? ??????? ? ???????? ?? 1960 ????,? ????? ? 1963 ?? ????? ????????, ????? ????????.

point is i came up? ...
point is i came up? with more or less the same idea when i was 13 years old lol.. i was very happy to see somebody with the resources to create such a system brought my idea into reality. =D

i came up with this ...
i came up with this idea when i was in middle school... no im serious i even wrote about my idea in science class paper back in 2001 (not sure when this was actually invented), none of my friends fully understood what i was talking about. i remember showing it to physics teacher later on in life and he was very interested by the idea. my concept of course was more crude, basically it would "downshift" using a CVT into a flywheel that would be used? in stop and go traffic to add to fuel economy...

I see this working ...
I see this working in racing,? not normal use

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This is shady. This guy (both of them? actually) should be selling Sham-Wows.

OK, 70% efficient, ...
OK, 70% efficient, but I want to see this? 80hp flywheel.

Really Cool!?
Really Cool!?

frikken? smart
frikken? smart

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Thanks.? Brake recovery without batteries! So.. When?

seemes like? a big ...
seemes like? a big pain in the ass to me

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yes, there's got to be a counter? rotation of a similar flywheel somewhere... (I guess :P)

There are ways to ...
There are ways to counter? that.

Wouldn't? the ...
Wouldn't? the gyroscopic effect make the car harder to turn?

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I can see your point, but to store enough energy, the flywheel would have to be very heavy as well, which is acceptable in F1 as they have minimum weight? requirements, but on a road car, I guess this may be a burden together with the original non-lightweight flywheel. Furthermore road cars stop occasionally, which is very different to the rapid accelration and decceleratoin of racecars. I guess that would cause problems on adapting flywheel hybrid to road cars ??

the idear is ...
the idear is brilliant but the F1? teams decided to turn it down ,i think that it had something to with the complex rules in F1 .

Yes batteries are ...
Yes batteries are heavy and not cheap. The future costs we expect. (replacement)The flywheel storage is a good idea. When I get around to it, ill show mine and see if someone hasnt already got a patent? for it. Ive done some searching. Take advantage of the momentum.

How about flywheels ...
How about flywheels for cycles. Its a real strain taking off from lights all the time.?

Does this help ...
Does this help youtube.com/watch?v=hgl7IBmUj8o?

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Yeah I know what you? mean ... :S

@ GnalrlGevs -- 1/2 ...
@ GnalrlGevs -- 1/2 mass times velocity squared is the formula for kinetic energy for translational motion. For rotational its 1/2 inertia times angular velocity squared and inertia for a disk is 1/2 MR^2. so overall should? be 1/4 MR^2 (v^2/R^2) which simplifies to 1/4 M V^2.. i think

half mass? times ...
half mass? times velocity squared!!! i hope the engineers at torotrak know the equation.