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Ya. Its one of those that had its look in the sun, so to speak. KISS and preferably not moving (PV) are ideal guidelines. Things that move at a high rate of speed demand accelerating precision as the speed increases. At the opposite end of the kinetic scale is filling rail cars with heavy ore and powering it up hill to collect energy, and run it downhill to exit the energy. Actually a safer bet. The closest and best gened energy is PV. No moving parts. They just need to get the efficiency to 50%. Get that far and everything changes, along with room temp super conductors. Different world. 

Complex design makes for good profit. KISS makes for good engineering.

KISS has been on my list to help create a draft infographic! I'll try to send you a draft soon, @william fitch!

Ya. Its one of those that had its look in the sun, so to speak. KISS and preferably not moving (PV) are ideal guidelines. Things that move at a high rate of speed demand accelerating precision as the speed increases. At the opposite end of the kinetic scale is filling rail cars with heavy ore and powering it up hill to collect energy, and run it downhill to exit the energy. Actually a safer bet. The closest and best gened energy is PV. No moving parts. They just need to get the efficiency to 50%. Get that far and everything changes, along with room temp super conductors. Different world. 

Complex design makes for good profit. KISS makes for good engineering.

I am curious of your vector on that.

KISS has been on my list to help create a draft infographic! I'll try to send you a draft soon, @william fitch!

Ya. Its one of those that had its look in the sun, so to speak. KISS and preferably not moving (PV) are ideal guidelines. Things that move at a high rate of speed demand accelerating precision as the speed increases. At the opposite end of the kinetic scale is filling rail cars with heavy ore and powering it up hill to collect energy, and run it downhill to exit the energy. Actually a safer bet. The closest and best gened energy is PV. No moving parts. They just need to get the efficiency to 50%. Get that far and everything changes, along with room temp super conductors. Different world. 

Complex design makes for good profit. KISS makes for good engineering.

I'll keep you posted - on the other online community thread that we originally discussed this on!

Thanks so much,

Ella

I am curious of your vector on that.

KISS has been on my list to help create a draft infographic! I'll try to send you a draft soon, @william fitch!

Ya. Its one of those that had its look in the sun, so to speak. KISS and preferably not moving (PV) are ideal guidelines. Things that move at a high rate of speed demand accelerating precision as the speed increases. At the opposite end of the kinetic scale is filling rail cars with heavy ore and powering it up hill to collect energy, and run it downhill to exit the energy. Actually a safer bet. The closest and best gened energy is PV. No moving parts. They just need to get the efficiency to 50%. Get that far and everything changes, along with room temp super conductors. Different world. 

Complex design makes for good profit. KISS makes for good engineering.

The flywheels are located next to an existing ground mounted solar array at a distributed energy generation facility. The flywheels were designed for energy arbitrage to reduce peak load and increase grid reliability.

PV Powered Flywheels

As all things that humans create for energy one must always take into account all the cost to make the darn thing from cradle to the grave. In most cases the complete cost to mine, fabricate, process, develop, manufactor, distribution, maintenance, repair, retrofit, upgrade, and then hopefully recycle the thing, would cost a larger carbon footprint in the long run than the thing was designed to offset in the first place.  The modest hybrid self-sufficient stand alone solar cabins, homes, farmsteads, and PV micro-grid villages where human beings actually live, has already been proven to be the most efficient way to live upon this planet. Big Picture at scale,  all other experimentation at this juncture in our opinion is sheer foolishness, as far as carbon combustion pollution is concerned, and will all fall by the wayside. As a global electric civilization we are going to have to get serious about how this electricity is produced,  trust the science,  and make a move collectively in a sustainable direction away from this path of destruction.  

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Timothy Mcbride
CEOOwner
Sol-Era R & D

Original Message:
Sent: 09-09-2021 06:34 PM
From: Harmon Lookhoff
Subject: Energy storage - Battery v. Flywheel