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Comment on Giant flywheel project in Scotland could prevent UK blackouts

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This sounds like a fancy syncon. They have been a thing in power network engineering for a long time.

I can believe it has "new features" but the underlying mechanics of a Syncon are not new. This may just be something good, being over sold by a company with an interest in boosting.

This looks like the electrical equivalent of a weir

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