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Video: Flywheel Demo from Active Power

Posted By Rich Miller On March 4, 2008 @ 8:17 am In Data Center Videos | Comments Disabled

In today’s video, ActivePower’s Martin Olsen explains how the company’s flywheel-driven backup system can save space when used in place of a bank of batteries in a data center. This video from PodTech, taped at last September’s Data Center World conference, runs about 8 minutes, 30 seconds.



For more information, see our featured on growing adoption of flywheels [2], as well as our archive of stories about power issues in the data center [3].

About Rich Miller [4]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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URLs in this post:

[1] http://www.podtech.net/home/4198/activepower-flywheel-ups: http://www.podtech.net/home/4198/activepower-flywheel-ups

[2] growing adoption of flywheels: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Jun/26/flywheels_gain_as_alternative_to_batteries.html

[3] power issues in the data center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/power-index.html

[4] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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