flywheel

This creates a great flywheel where the team is evaluating people of equal skill on their cultural fit....

Because as the flywheel gains momentum you have to push ever harder on it to make it go faster.

The flywheel sounds a bit too mechanical and less in tune with our biological needs.

Awesome, your project and flywheel[0] were the inspiration for a lot of the design[1]!

Energy storage (battery, flywheel, etc) would solve the transient energy problem, you are correct.

It worked by using regular AC power to spin a flywheel which was then spinning a generator through a continuously variable transmission (CVT).

The long-term winners will be companies like Flywheel that recognize this and focus on providing that service to existing operators, much like payment processors.

It could work in a sealed system, such as a hard-drive bearing or a flywheel similar to what is used in some hybrid vehicles.

If you take a slightly unusual path, enjoy it, and get the flywheel/positive feedback loop going, you have maybe a 1-3% chance of getting rich.

That's what generally happens to people as their flywheel gains momentum.

Every dollar I can spend on not learning a new skill is a minute I can put towards pushing my flywheel.

It's not like a flywheel + generator is very expensive.

The engineer responsible for its installation suggested that if there was 6" of ground movement in an earth quake the gyroscope effect would wrench the flywheel off its mount and it would rapidly climb out of the basement on its own momentum.

If, by that, you mean the ride-hailing app -- the main part that isn't challenged as an evasion of either taxi laws or labor laws -- they are (e.g., the Flywheel app.) Not as much visibility, because it doesn't have the dedicated capital and media attention flowing into it from being "disruptive".

There's no question that what they were able to create this monstrous flywheel of engagement around a strong core concept but from my vantage point (read: I know they printed money with FarmVille and CityVille and have more or less floundered in the past year), they were only really good at the "let's take this already successful concept/hook and turn it into a cash cow" side of the equation.

Flywheel storage systems would be a great idea to supplement renewable energy, or even to supplement our current electricity generation technologies.

Flywheel Disel Engines for example will automatically turn on when the power goes out...

Flywheel in SF is in use by all the cab companies I think.