[Tom Stanton] is right about one thing: flywheels make excellent playthings. Whether watching a spinning top that never seems to slow down, or feeling the weird forces a gyroscope exerts, spinning ...

In the VSS-120 flywheel power system, high-speed rotation is attributed to Pentadyne’s use of a 12-in. wide high-speed carbon composite flywheel. The flywheel is suspended within the module by ...

After years of being billed as the next great revolutionary means of propulsion, flywheels may finally be ready for prime time. Aside from a few modest successes, flywheels have not lived up to this ...