Reply To: Focus fusion and transportation

[Aeronaut]

Henning wrote: I believe you’re thinking of inverters (DC->AC), not of rectifiers (AC->DC). That’s actually the beauty of FF, because you already get a inverter for free. Output capacitors are already required, otherwise you’re getting only impulses of a few milliseconds.

Or are you’re thinking of eliminating those output capacitors? And replacing them with what? Inductors of the same size? Not much gained (but might be cheaper).

I’m thinking of computerized control circuit which switches the several capacitors onto the grid depending on demand and circuit phase. You still need an inductor for leveling out the edges, but you need them anyway. So it’s an computerized inverter. I think the modern ones are computerized anyway.

You can compare this to modern automobiles with their computerized ignition systems compared to primitive distributors in cars twenty and more years ago.

Or if it’s of Rematog’s big-scale utility (200 FF generators), you might orchestrate them to output something that looks like a sine wave. You then don’t even have something with a stable frequency, it’ll look much more like you’re Windows Task Manager with two processor cores running on 50% speed (because the process running is only built for one processor). The load jitters between them two.

I hadn’t thought of phase-shifting, but I love the idea in larger installations like utilities. It gets even better since the switching will probably be banked SCRs to start with. Pulsed Direct Current, iow. We would be able to easily design an array of sources and grounds so that the entire system energy flows, including profit, are dynamically reconfigured as often as a million times per second. Redesign is as easy as rewriting a truth table or database.

Yes, I’d use capacitors only where needed on the output side. We are required to use a coil (think transformer primary) to recover the ion energy, why not send the profit down the line in as straight-forward a manner as possible? I do see a need for input caps so that we really do have a control system.