Not an ansewr just a story...

35 years ago I had a friend who was going graduate work in high energy
physics at Berkley. Those were they days when they started the "beam" in the
HV room feed it to the linear accelerator and then fed it's output into the
Bevetron (Bevetron stands for Billion Electron Volts, at the time the
biggest cylotron in existance, and looks like a joke now compared to CERN
but I digress) That HV room was quite a sight, looked like something out
Buck Rodgers... but MOST impressive was the two M-G's they had. The Bevetron
took soo much energy that they couldn't power it directly off the utility
grid, had to spin up these HUMONGOUS flywheels with the M-G's.. further more
since the Bevetron like all cylotrons used pulses of power they need
something to be the bigassed "capacitors" and that was the flywheels on the
M-G's... Those flywheels were solid cast iron, three feet wide and 12 feet
tall and were arranged so when they spun the turned going UP the hilll...
they containd so much kenitic energy that if they ever broke loose and went
DOWN hill they would have plowed all the way through downtown Berkley and
wound up in the bay... As it was one old timer figured if they broke loose
going UP hill they have wound up in Orinda.

Ahh BIG Science :-)

--.- Dave

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At a local plant, there once was a computer center. The room was fed
with a motor generator to provide clean power to it. I made an
inquiry and the unit might be available.

It has been years since I saw it, but it was a motor, probably 480
3ph, driving a generator with a large flywheel between them.

Any reason not to pursue it? Were the old mainframes run off of
anything other than 60Hz AC?

I am sure that it was a top quality unit when installed. I am hoping
that it would be a upgrade over the ST15 generator run by my 16-2
Lister CS. I am working at getting in there to inspect it.

Bob