Letters to a friend _ Commercial Flywheel Energy System
Hello friend(s), To understand the potential energy of a weighted flywheel, let's look at how a commercial flywheel energy system works. The energy available is calculated in this fashion. Kinetic energy, or your power out, is determined by the angular momentum of the flywheel. Angular momentum is mass times velocity times the radius of the flywheel. We can use this to size the flywheel we will need to create torque from the 12V DC motor to the generator circuit.