Has Flywheel storage every been seriously used in large-scale commercial applications? Someone mentions it on every energy-storage thread, and I'd like to know if the people suggesting it are just spinning our wheels.
Edit: Seems the purpose is purely frequency regulation, rather than storage per se.
I believe some electric cars used capacitors to store regenerated electricity from breaking.
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[1] - http://pia.sagepub.com/content/200/2/95.abstract
[2] - http://www.euro-fusionscipub.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/...
FES has 10x specific energy than supercapacitors or batteries with no memory and precise state of charge. Magnetic bearings and hard vacuums make them quite efficient.