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Martin Bonner
 
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doozer wrote:
The amount of energy stored in a flywheel increases linearly with weight
but exponetially (^2) with angular velocity.


Nit: You mean "quadratically", not "exponetially".

It is therefore much better
to get it spinning fast than to make it heavy.


.... but this is still true :-)