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 ...

Every discharge-recharge cycle reduces the life of a battery. In fact, the higher the percentage of total available energy the battery delivers during a discharge, the greater the reduction in its ...

Valve-regulated lead-acid (VRLA) batteries, commonly used in UPS systems, are subject to a variety of life-shortening influences. Temperature variations of as little as 10°C can reduce the service ...

Two engineering professors have examined the use of flywheel technology to store energy generated when light rail transit trains decelerate and stop. Trains such as the LRT used in Edmonton, Alberta, ...

Ricardo, Artemis Intelligent Power and Bombardier Transportation have conducted a project called DDFlyTrain, which showed that a flywheel-based energy recovery system could reduce fuel consumption on ...

NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio has signed an exclusive pre-patent license agreement with Power Tree Corp of Miami, Florida, to design, produce and operate a variety of electrical ...

While big generator capability is pretty well known in the industry, a short-term power supply source in the UPS business is quietly becoming popular for broadcast stations. The temporary energy ...

PORT PERRY, ON, Nov. 21, 2025 /CNW/ - Almost a year after expanding its patented Twin Flywheel Technology into four new wood chipper models - the TF46 PRO, TF68 PRO, TFG55 PTO, and TFG55 GAS - ...

(Edmonton) University of Alberta mechanical engineering professors Pierre Mertiny and Marc Secanell are looking to make an old technology new again and save some money for transit train operators such ...