Explore the engineering behind early Model T oil splash lubrication systems and vintage flywheel generators that powered some of the first mass-produced automobiles. This video dives into how these ...

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), ...

While many things are changing in radio, one thing is certain. Electrical power is the lifeblood of broadcasting. A momentary glitch in power can result in dead air that pushes listeners to change ...

CHATSWORTH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kinetic Traction Systems, Inc. (KTSi) launches with innovative clean energy storage and recycling systems for mass transit rail. KTSi’s proprietary flywheel ...

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 ...

Kinetic-energy recovery systems didn't fare well in Formula 1, but a bunch of British automotive companies bet the technology will catch on with road cars. A consortium led by a Jaguar Land Rover is ...

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 ...

Rise in renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, which are intermittent in nature, drives the need for effective energy storage solutions. FES systems store and release energy quickly, ...

Flywheel-powered UPSs continue to be adopted as a source of backup power in data center and industrial applications as evidenced by recent orders received by Active Power and Vycon. Active Power just ...

Pentadyne Power's second-generation VSS+DC flywheel-based clean energy storage systems have earned an Underwriters Laboratories (UL) listing. The UL listing granted--according to the UL website--is ...

Since Ford sold Jaguar Land Rover to Indian carmaker Tata in TK, the luxury maker has stepped out a bit. Their green efforts have taken down several interesting technology paths that seem unlikely had ...