Data Center World: Flywheel UPS Demonstration

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Marton Olsen from Active Power gives a brief demonstration of the company's flywheel UPS system at the Data Center World expo in Las Vegas on April 1, 2008.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: April 2, 2008 at 9:10 am
Author: DataCenterVideos

Length: 00:02:26
Rating: 4.40
Views: 3204

Tags: datacenter dcw flywheel ups

Video Comments:
marek35 (November 13, 2008 at 11:44 pm)
did he say 200 kW on this one wheel? that is a lot of energy
MatthewLWspace (June 11, 2008 at 11:16 pm)
15 seconds is not a reliable amount of time for a generator to start, it becomes many times more impractical if you involve any kind of generator paralleling gear. Flywheels should really only be used in addition to battery based systems.
roidroid (June 14, 2008 at 7:14 am)
>"15 seconds is not a reliable amount of time for a generator to start"

then use 2 of them for 30 seconds, or 4 of them for a minute, whatever you need.

Your complaint could be used exactly the same for batteries: "oh one battery only gives you X amount of power" - well that's why we use more than one battery in a system.
And just the same: you can use more than one flywheel in a system.
MatthewLWspace (June 14, 2008 at 10:59 am)
Clearly the best solution is to limit your thresholds to the second instead of those extending to ten fold the typical threshold of batteries. Proper research validates my points above your conjecture.
roidroid (June 14, 2008 at 11:04 am)
i don't know what you just said
krazykizza (May 28, 2008 at 3:44 am)
Put me down for 4 my good man.