Comment on 220-ton flywheel generator in Germany

• wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To power the magnetic coils that provide plasma containment for an experimental fusion reactor, in order to research how to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction.

  Such an achievement would be a watershed moment in human history, and most likely would usher in a new technological age of energy production.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And it’s just decades away

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank you.

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• sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Although my little fun fact doesn’t apply to THIS flywheel generator, I recently learned, that flywheel generators are used all over Europe to stabilise the Continental Europe Synchronous Area: They are constantly kept spinning and because of their inertia they level any voltage drops and peaks they encounter. Learning this blew my mind because I never would’ve thought that such a simple technology was used to stabilise our electricity grid.

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