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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #282 Spinning up the renewables revolution: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Gold Champion — Dumarey
Description: Can an ancient technology help spin up the renewables revolution? Dumarey—formerly Punch—Flybrid is doing just that, with its flywheel-based technology. In this episode, one of a series this summer, we look at their winning entries to the Engineering Matters Awards.
On construction sites, power supply must be shaped around the peak demands of heavy equipment. Waiting times for high power connections typically mean that generators are used instead, and these must be sized for the maximum power drawn. Dumarey’s flywheels can remove this need. A trickle of power from a generator a tenth of the si...