The first time I took Project 325 to the drag strip for testing, launching was impossible. With a stock engine, 90-degree weather and 235/40-17 ContiSportContact 2 tires, I could leave the line at ...

The Omaha tech company Flywheel will anchor Millwork Commons, a project aimed at the revitalization of an area between 11th and 14th Street from Izard to Seward Streets. Omaha's newest neighborhood is ...

TYNGSBORO, MA and ANCHORAGE, AL--(Marketwired - May 26, 2015) - Beacon Power, the world's leading manufacturer of grid-scale flywheel energy storage systems, announced that it has entered into an ...

Perched atop a century-old warehouse at 12th and Nicholas streets, a brightly colored water tower stands out against the blue sky. A freshly painted 'M' on the tower lets visitors know, they've ...

A pilot project for kinetic energy storage has begun operations on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The project features flywheel energy storage technology, provided by California’s Amber Kinetics – the ...

In the first part of this project series we learned of my experiences with a slipping clutch--a problem I was having after only a couple of baseline quarter-mile test runs. The second write-up ...

A Volvo test of an experimental high-tech flywheel-based energy capture system in a S60 reveals that the technology could help to reduce a car’s fuel consumption by up to 25 percent. Could the ...

Beacon Power secures $43 million loan to finance a 20-megawatt energy storage project that uses spinning metal disks to store electricity and send it onto the grid. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

China has connected to the grid its first large-scale standalone flywheel energy storage project in Shanxi Province’s city of Changzhi. The Dinglun Flywheel Energy Storage Power Station broke ground ...