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5 December

5 December · 07:31 UTC

This bus from the 1950s had a novel form of battery to power it. It used a flywheel. Flywheels are a mechanical battery, you can store a lot of energy in a rotating heavy disk. NASA designed a space probe with a flywheel storage device, F1 have used them for kinetic energy recovery, etc.

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