Darris White: Green Technologies and Hybrid Vehicles

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For more news visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Follow us on Facebook ☛ me.lt A 22-year old college graduate in New York has adapted hybrid car technology to a bicycle. He uses a fly-wheel to store energy generated by the brakes for use when the riding gets tough. Feeling the need for speed? If you’re riding Maxwell von Stein’s bicycle, you can get to your destination in a flash, without having to work up a sweat. The engineering student’s fly-wheel bicycle employs the same energy alternating principles as a hybrid car. But rather than a battery, it uses a fly-wheel to transfer and store kinetic energy, which gives the bike a boost in speed. To build the technology, he began with a 15 pound, cast iron fly-wheel taken from a car engine. He mounted the fly-wheel in the center of the bike frame, and attached it to the rear wheel through a continuously variable transmission. [Maxwell von Stein, Inventor of the Fly-wheel Bicycle]: “That transmission controls how energy is distributed between the bike and the fly-wheel. When you want to slow down you twist the transmission, it’s a twist shift on the right handle bar. … By shifting that ratio, you increase the speed of the flywheel and decrease the speed of the bike. Now the flywheel is spinning really quickly, you’ve got energy stored there and when you need to accelerate you shift the transmission in the opposite direction for a boost in speed.” Von Stein says he likes to think of the process as …
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