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For future generations when the world has run out of all forms of fuels, including, oil gas, coal, wood and uranium to fuel power stations and the sun finally gets the ump and won't let us have solar rays anymore,'and it will', mark my words, and everything powered by electricity packs it in for good. I expect most folk remember the friction motors in toy cars of yesteryear which used a flywheels inertia to propel it along once shoved off by hand. Well, my plan is to provide the whole world with electricity without the use of any fossil, nuclear or solar and is based on those simple little toys. Without a doubt gigantic flywheels, will be the only method of generating electrical power, When I say gigantic I really mean, hugely and unbelievably gigantic, too gigantic to believe, in fact you're all going to say 'Its impossible'', but is it? Yes flywheels driving generators instead of what did it in the past. Going back to ''gigantic''. Take one flywheel, the dimensions of which to provide enough electricity for say the whole of the UK and enable it to have enough inertia and reasonable endurance to spin for a decently long time before slowing down and stopping would be, (roughly, might I add)........ Flywheel diameter= 3 miles and 3.1/2 inches. Thickness= 1/2 mile and 2''. Flywheel casting- 27 million tons of ready mix concrete. Flywheel axle diameter diameter= 103 yds.' Axle length=3/4 mile. Axle bearings ID= 103 yds and 10 thou. Flywheel balance weights= Many tons of anodes fixed where needed. These dimension are carefully, painstakingly and scientifically worked out on a fag packet to be viable, safe, practical and successful. Now the explanations done lets get the flywheel mounted, though that's just the beginning. Foreseeing into the future we must be ready and steady for when all the present methods of generating electricity shuts down for good, and no good just waiting for it to happen and just hoping for the best in the traditional English fashion. So, for that reason, the flywheel will have to be constructed immediately to enable it to be spun up to 152,000 rpm, which will be amply fast enough to provide enough power to last the UK. Now, I have to give an approximate endurance time for this as its not been done before and who knows what electrical gadgets folk are going to use ect, but I won't be far wrong in guessing 3 years 2 months, 6 days, 2 hours and 1.1/2 mins, I'm afraid that's as precise as I dare be. Naturally your all going to say ''what happens when it stops and the lights go out'', well that's quite a simple question to answer. TWO flywheels are constructed, whilst one is working the second is being wound up to speed and be ready to take over, simple. The matter of winding them up to speed is also quite simple but will require a lot of energy to do so. To begin with it can be wound up to speed by the present use of electrical power, electric motors suitably geared up to it, as can steam engines, diesel engines ect. But when these resources become redundant through lack of fuels it'll be down to man and animal power, thousands and thousands of em poking it around with sticks and winding handles,'so don't throw yer locking windlass away, as they will be needed to fit the standard tapered lock paddle spindle size that I intend to use. I've prudently judged that it will take approximately 3 years or so to wind it up to full speed by man and beast power when the generators can be clutched in. If the flywheels are perfectly in balance and their bearings well oiled they should begin to rotate at the touch of a finger. Note, severe penalties will be imposed if anyone is caught sharpening their kitchen knives or scissors on the flywheel and wasting the winders energy. I shall leave the simple jobs of the connecting up of suitably sized generators- alternators and electrical network to others as that simple job is way below my extraordinary talents and I will have enough to do dealing with 'the flywheel' I'd better mention this. There will be one slight bit of danger with this gigantic flywheel. In the event of it possibly suffering 'bearing failure' when rotating at high revs and suddenly leaping off its bearing blocks and rampaging off around the globe, laying everything to waste in its path and razing everything to the ground in its headlong ramble. In the event of this happening a fenced off dedicated safety path of 1 mile in width, encircling the whole planet should be made where everyone, for their own safety be kept out of until after about 701 and a bit circumnavigations of the globe have been completed and the flywheel looses its inertia, keels over and dies. It will simply skim over the sea's and oceans of the world, so all shipping must keep out of the danger path. It is also possible to construct a super dooper massive flywheel 200 miles in diameter that would supply the whole world with electrical power, but first things first, ay. I'm also designing a massive clockwork motor too, with which to replace gigantic flywheels, as I feel they will be safer but am having winding up trouble, clockwork springs get harder to wind as they're wound up and I fear that insufficient man and beast power would be available to ever exert enough power on a giant key to fully wind the spring. So, here you have it. Your power of the future.