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		buryat on Jan 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air ener... i agree, wind turbines do rotate but not at high speeds, disintegration of one doesn’t lead to catastrophic outcomes. Flywheels on the other hand are meant to rotate at high speeds and hold lots of energy, so destruction of the spindle would lead to some pretty big bad results

PaulDavisThe1st on Jan 12, 2022 [–]

This sounds like a perfect question for Randall "XKCD" Munroe's "What If" column:

"What if a 5MW flywheel broke it's spindle?"

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