Zooz Power will use its flywheel technology to charge electric rental cars at New York City's LaGuardia airport, the Israel-based company formerly known as Chakratec announced earlier this month. Zooz ...

Ocean waves are a vast and steady source of renewable energy, but capturing their power efficiently has long frustrated ...

Now, Takahito Iida at the University of Osaka has proposed a new energy-harvesting technology that uses gyroscopic flywheel system that can be tuned to absorb energy efficiently over a broad range of ...

High utility rates and recurring reliability issues, particularly in urban areas, are driving the need for more effective and efficient power quality innovations for equipment such as data servers and ...

Larger-scale energy storage at the residential, commercial, campus, or even grid level is a challenge to which there’s no definitive and best solution. Options include electrochemical (batteries), ...

NASA’s Glenn Research Center developed a new flywheel-based mechanical battery system that redefined energy storage and spacecraft orientation. This innovative approach demonstrated the potential of ...

Research from The University of Osaka highlights a new model of a gyroscopic wave energy converter. The device was shown to be capable of absorbing up to half of incoming wave energy across a wide ...

Although true flywheel-based kinetic energy recovery systems (KERS) never quite caught on in racing or in production hybrids, a company in Israel has been working on putting the technology to use ...

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21 July 2006 – Pentadyne Power Corporation, the manufacturer of clean energy storage systems using advanced composite flywheel technology, has announced that the first of its second-generation VSS+ DC ...

ECE researcher, Dr. Mark Flynn's high-speed flywheel motor controller is reducing fuel consumption and harmful emissions at ports throughout the world. Flynn's design has been incorporated into energy ...