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  • Flywheels, air pressure systems, new battery technology . . .

    The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • Flywheels, capacitors, compressed air, and superconductors are jostling for space.

    Archive 2010-08-01 Venkat's Energy Blog 2010

  • Flywheels, capacitors, compressed air, and superconductors are jostling for space.

    One battery chemistry to rule them all? Venkat's Energy Blog 2010

  • Flywheels, air pressure systems, new battery technology . . .

    The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010

  • Flywheels and megabatteries are already deployed on a small scale.

    Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte: Next President: Cut Coal Fast, Experts Warn 2008

  • Flywheels are not the first alternative energy source that comes to mind, but they may help prevent blackouts.

    Alternative energy sources 2007

  • Flywheels can be made from wood, cement, steel, clay/cow manure, car tires or combinations of these.

    4. Plastic clay forming 1991

  • Flywheels have advantages over batteries and power plants, Theodore O'Neill, an analyst at Wunderlich Securities in New York, said in an interview.

    unknown title 2011

  • Flywheels, megawatt-sized flow batteries, banks of lithium-ion batteries, ultracapacitors, and a few strangely designed gravity-based systems are among some of the other technologies expected to play a role on the grid in the coming years.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Tyler Hamilton 2011

  • Flywheels compete with truck-container-size lithium ion batteries which have been used on the grid for similar uses.

    CNET News.com 2011

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