fly wheels

For emergency energy for an orbital space colony, could one use the
energy stored in the rotation of the colony itself? It could be used
for eclipses (usually only a few minutes) and for major failures of the
solar array.

There's a lot of energy available, particularly if the shielding
rotates. Anyone have an idea how to implement this?

Space tourism could be our ticket to the stars. Save your pennies,
suborbital flights for $100,000 may start in 2005! See
http://www.spaceadventures.com/suborbital for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

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