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Rotational kinetic energy Flywheel energy Engineers at the Univer...

Rotational kinetic energy

Flywheel energy Engineers at the University of Texas at Austin are developing an Advanced Locomotive Propulsion System that uses a gas turbine and perhaps the largest high speed flywheel in the world in terms of the energy it can store. The flywheel can store 4.8 X 108 J of energy when operating at its maximum rotational speed of 15,000 rpm. At that rate, the perimeter of the rotor moves at approximately 1,000 m/s. Determine the radius of the flywheel and its rotational inertia.

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