Reply To: Repowering the electric utility industry

[zapkitty]

JimmyT wrote: Up until now the assumption has been a fusion generator with a pulse rate of 200 Hz.

Focus Fusion units are intended to be drop-in replacements for existing infrastructure… wherever and whatever that infrastructure might be. This enables FF implementation [em]without[/em] forcing changes in standards or requiring massive stranding of current grid assets.

JimmyT wrote: Then conditioning the electricity to 60 Hz and blending it in the grid with other 60 Hz electricity.

It sounds like you’re thinking AC and the raw output of a unit will be in HVDC. That means that there will have to be conversion at each unit or cluster of units regardless of local electrical standards and thus the output of a particular unit will be tuned to whatever is needed at that particular locale.

And so the simple and economic answer to grid improvement via Focus Fusion is to install FF units wherever needed, which will eventually be most everywhere, and to adapt the [em]local[/em] grids to robust distributed modes of operation as we go.

This is already happening in fits and starts with the arrival of alternative energy sources and FF joining the party will only accelerate the process… big time 🙂

Long overdue infrastructure upgrades in places like the U.S. will be much easier to undertake that way. The FF units will more than pay for themselves and thus the sheer damn [em]cheapness[/em] of aneutronic fusion will cover an awful lot of grid improvements and upgrades.