Jim Dunmyer wrote in a message to Mike Ross:
 JD> Same thing with flywheel energy storage. This was used in 
 JD> busses in Sweden 30 years ago. It 'might' work 'someday', but 
 JD> it ain't ready now.
Was it really?  I didn't think that they'd actually gone and done a practical 
application of it.  Did they stop after a while?  Do you know what the 
problem was with it,  if so?

 JD> On-topic discussions include PhotoVoltaic (PV) electric 
 JD> generation, wind generators, small-scale hydropower,
Speaking of which,  I can still remember a bit on the news a while back where 
they showed a short bit of video depicting some of that stuff going on in 
Bosnia.  What sticks in my mind is a picture of a "thing" that sorta 
resembled part of the back end of a car,  or at least the back end of a drive 
train,  tires and all,  slowly turning in the current of the river that it 
was sitting in,  and wires going from that to the house that it was attached 
to.  There appeared to be several of these in operation,  and it really got 
me wondering!
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