Amber Kinetics
Mike Polidori is a Senior Mechanical Engineer with extensive experience in designing and developing innovative technologies across various sectors. Currently at Amber Kinetics since February 2021, Mike focuses on flywheel energy storage systems for grid applications. Prior roles include Senior Mechanical Engineer at Zoox, where Mike contributed to the development of a fully autonomous electric vehicle, and at ATDynamics, Inc., where responsibilities involved leading the design of automated aerodynamic products to enhance fuel efficiency. Additionally, Mike has experience from Honda R&D, where design engineering for the Acura series was a focus, and from academic projects at UC Irvine as the Formula SAE Chassis Team Lead. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from UC Irvine.
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Amber Kinetics
Amber Kinetics is a low cost flywheel energy storage system, developing a flywheel system from sub-scale research prototype to full-scale mechanical flywheel battery and will conduct both a commercial-scale and a utility-scale demonstration.Amber Kinetics’ aim is to deliver a cost-effective prototype flywheel system that can be grid connected andelectrically charged and discharged. The system has built-in sensing components that determines frequency and voltage characteristics of the grid and overrides the grid signal to manage the amount of electricity discharged.Amber Kinetics’ flywheel stores energy in a spinning rotor that is connected to an electric motor that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. To recover the energy the motor is electrically reversed and used as a generator to slow down the flywheel converting the mechanical energy back into electrical energy.Amber Kinetics improves the traditional flywheel system by engineering breakthroughs in three areas, magnetic bearings, low-cost rotor, and high-efficiency motor generator. Its technology can also be used to optimize existing infrastructure.Amber Kinetics was founded by Seth Sanders. It is based in California City, California.