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NYC Subways Testing Flywheels

Posted by michael on from the next-stop-42nd-street dept.

socolow writes "The New York Times (free registration required) has an article about the NYC subway system's use of flywheels to store the braking energy of trains approaching stations. Not only does this advance the development of flywheel energy storage, but it will help relieve a lot of the heat subways generate (always appreciated during the summer)."

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  1. A better way to slow trains... by newestbob · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...throw vagrants in front of them! This way you solve your braking problem *and* your homeless problem in one step!

  2. Slashdot NYTimes Login by d3xt3r · · Score: 1, Troll

    Here's a user account I created to see this article at NY times without everyone having to register: username: slashdot2233 password: slashdot I'd hate to see anyone posting without having actually read the article. ;-)

  3. Juice Me Up, baby! by gearheadsmp · · Score: -1, Troll

    For the last several weeks, through countless countdowns and test runs, the flywheels have been working like sponges, successfully absorbing the extra energy put out by a braking train. Or, as Robert Schmitt, another transit electrical official, put it, excitedly: "They're sitting here, saying: `Give it to me! Give it to me! Give it to me!' "

    Ohhhh daddy! Harder harder! More electricty! Uhhhhhh Uhhhhh!!!! YesssssSSSSS!!!!!! OHHHH UHHH!!!!!

  4. 100% agreement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    First of all, the registration is annoying. Secondly, the NYT is biased. It is simply blatantly biased, and I do not feel that a "news" publication whose primary guiding principle is a hatred of traditional moral principles has any business being linked from a respectable site like Slashdot.

    Either stop linking to it, or let us opt out. Pretty please?