While You're at It, Why Not Generate A Little Electricity. CETO - wave energy for electricity production and desalination of seawater. Electricity Storage Association - power quality, power supply. Flywheel energy storage. Flywheel energy storage (FES) works by accelerating a rotor (flywheel) to a very high speed and maintaining the energy in the system as rotational energy.
When energy is extracted from the system, the flywheel's rotational speed is reduced as a consequence of the principle of conservation of energy; adding energy to the system correspondingly results in an increase in the speed of the flywheel. Most FES systems use electricity to accelerate and decelerate the flywheel, but devices that directly use mechanical energy are being developed.[1] Since FES can be used to absorb or release electrical energy such devices may sometimes be incorrectly and confusingly described as either mechanical or inertia batteries [2][3] Main components[edit] Home : Beacon Power Corporation. VYCON - Flywheel Technology. Flywheels have been used since the Bronze Age as a way to store kinetic energy.
Today, with new high speed motor technology, VYCON has developed highly efficient flywheel systems which provide consistent, dependable energy for a variety of important applications. VYCON's flywheel-based energy storage systems hold kinetic energy in a spinning mass, and convert this energy to electric power through the use of a high speed electric motor/generator. Advanced flywheel systems from VYCON originated from its parent company Calnetix, the leader in high speed permanent magnet motors and generators, magnetic bearings, power electronics and system integration.
Main components of the VYCON flywheel -- a high-speed permanent magnet motor/generator, fully active magnetic bearings, and the rotor assembly construction -- constitute a unique synthesis of proprietary technologies: High Speed Permanent Magnet Motor/Generator. Wave Power - Energy from ocean surface waves.