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i agree, wind turbines do rotate but not at high speeds, disintegration of one doesn’t lead to catastrophic outcomes. Flywheels on the other hand are meant to rotate at high speeds and hold lots of energy, so destruction of the spindle would lead to some pretty big bad results


This sounds like a perfect question for Randall "XKCD" Munroe's "What If" column:

"What if a 5MW flywheel broke it's spindle?"




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