Comments by "Muck006" (@Muck006) on "Ask Adam Savage: Savage Builds Wheel of Death Re-Do and Unrealized Ideas" video.

  1. The biggest problem is probably that you have to take all the energy from ONE flywheel which - at the beginning - is spinning very fast. This makes the brakeing rather difficult due to putting MAXIMUM STRAIN on them at the start. A better but far more complicated solution would be to have 2-3 flywheels which are spinning at different speeds and are used at different times ... one to actually make the flywheel start moving (the point which requires most energy ... but not necessarily most rotational speed) to then increase the speed in several stages, which is where increased flywheel speed would be needed.
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