Reply To: Focus fusion and transportation

[Aeronaut]

Rematog wrote: Aeronaut,

I’m discussing the FF modules power conditioning, cables etc. INSIDE the module.

LOL, A station tranformer yard would need 25 Modules (or a whole lot more, in our case 115 modules) to power it.

My point in these posts was that the board seems to be invisioning pencil sized cables and shoe box sized power conditioning modues inside the FF skid. More like wrist thick cables and desk sized modules.

Rematog

PS: Google “arc flash video clip”. I personally know two men who had “died” until revived by CPR and were crippled by their burns in two seperate arc flash accidents. Look at “High voltage arcs and sparks” and “Arc flash while racking a breaker”. Remember guys, we are discussing deploying >100,000 FF modules that will have many 10’s of thousands of men and women working in them. The power industry uses big, heavy equipment (expensive) for, amoung other reasons, the desire to send it’s employees home alive at the end of the day.

I agree, Rematog. Safety is job 1. I’ve heard stories about lowly 480 volt grabbing people and creating fire balls. We can’t really sketch out the power conditioning equipment until we know what voltage and current ranges we can tweak the output cap bank(s) to provide.

I’ve been seeing 1GW plants like stacking modules in a 3D matrix. Suppose we can get 15 amps of 382kV from our 5MW, and we arrange these modules in a circle with the transmission transformer(s) in a very physically isolated part of the site. Something like circling the wagons, but turning the wagons 90 degrees so the business end of each module faces the transformer.