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| Next, they centrifuge the materials for hours at tens of thousands of revolutions per minute. For example, a computer measures engine revolutions per minute and translates that information into a digital code. Traditional flywheels can lose energy and break down through the friction created by the spinning wheel, but the flywheels developed by Pentadyne minimize that problem two ways: they are made of light-weight carbon fiber and are electromagnetically suspended, meaning they don't touch anything as they spin at 54,000 revolutions per minute (several times faster than a Formula 1 race car engine). |
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