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Is it impractical to have the braking spin up a flywheel which then gets used to start the train moving when it departs? With the energies involved, I can only imagine that would end up being a monster flywheel with size, safety, and reliability concerns. And the energy from the flywheel would also be wasted overcoming its own inertia.



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