Flywheel Energy Storage the Core Technology? (Score 1)

The scooter design idea has some possibilities, but what would make it special or revolutionary? Perhaps the man has solved the mechanical difficulties associated with flywheel energy storage -- high density flywheels, better vacuum seals, easy to manufacture and reliable magnelev bearings, and so on. It meets the hints: * The Inside article says the "core technology and its implementations" will impact big corporations and be the alternative to dirty, sometimes dangerous, and frustrating technology -- like, say, the internal combustion engine? * It would come in different sizes * People would own more than one * multiple uses, from transportation in many forms (car or scooter) to UPS backup * rebuild cities around it -- you'd need "recharge" stations all over the place * it is primarily a mechanical system, the inventor's forte * Provides the gyroscopic stability for the scooter design the patent searchers have seen * might provoke regulatory problems (an efficient flywheel requires high density: can you say depleted uranium? Even lead is toxic & regulated these nanny-state days.) * The introductory product, such as a scooter, is amusing and captures the imagination, but the energy storage and delivery system itself is the long term money maker as it is adapted for other purposes. Just another $0.02