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"textContent": "Amber Kinetics crossing my screen today was a reminder that electricity markets are littered with technologies that never quite die. Flywheels are one of those ideas. They are mechanically elegant, grounded in physics everyone understands, and they solve a real problem in principle. Store energy in a spinning mass, pull ... [continued]\n\nThe post From Beacon to Amber, Flywheels Missed the Grid appeared first on CleanTechnica.",
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