flywheel
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Thanks to its flywheel, for 60 years after the opening of Disneyland in 1955 Disney built the closest thing to a predictable business model in an otherwise hits-based industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Whilst these devices are designed for longer term space missions, the recent Artemis II mission around the moon took a specially developed exercise device called the flywheel.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
“It’s the fact that if you fuel correctly for all of your training, then you can run faster in training, and recover faster. You get this sort of flywheel effect.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
“Earlier this year, investors worried hyperscalers were building too much AI infrastructure, too quickly, with capex rising sharply and the revenue flywheel still unclear.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Marine engines have more horsepower, so it takes more strength to turn the flywheel.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
Images on social media purport to show one of the chairlift's flywheels off it's spoke.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025
For the MK-3, Dart Zone’s using serrated flywheels that appear to be slightly shredding every dart I fire out the end.
From The Verge ● Sep. 29, 2021
He wanted to see if his next flywheels could power a project with higher ideals.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019
Excess solar energy will be stored via flywheels housed in a communal building.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 14, 2017
It grew louder, angrier, and suggested the high-velocity spin of flywheels or electric turbines turning at impossible speed.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
