Flywheel Power Looks For A New Spin

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1. Batteries only last a few years and contain noxious chemicals, says Active Power Green considerations will prompt more data centres to adopt mechanical flywheel-based uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) to replace environmentally damaging batteries, a London conference heard. Mechanical flywheels can store enough energy to keep data centres running in the event of a power cut, and they compare well with batteries on most measures, Active Power said, and showed a containerised flywheel power supply at the Data Center Dynamics event in London. (Read Full Article)

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