The Rev Dodgson said:

SCIENCE said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

OK, make that only for very short term storage then.

we thought (from reading elsewhere) the whole (sensible, as opposed to undecided) argument about this was that massive flywheels already exist in “traditional” fossilburning electrical generators, and were responsible for a fair part of the surge resilience of the “traditional” grid (as very short term storage), and so the massive flywheels part of it could simply continue with a modification that they run as motor-generators rather than turbine-generators

Could well be. I thought they were installing new ones, but I may have that wrong.

maybe, we just interpreted the video as drumming up the benefits of flywheel like an entrepreneur with manic psychosis so took it with a flake of lithium more than as actual SCIENCE supporting their widespread use, but then again we tend to trust all online video about as much as that

speaking of lithium disclaimer we’r‘n’t saying that flywheel are any better than lifepo battery