The Focus Fusion Society Forums Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Experiment (LPPX) Remaking the electric grid Reply To: Repowering the electric utility industry

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Andrew Palfreyman
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Reductio ad absurdum: semiconductors switch not at 200 Hz but at GHz. They operate with microamps at sub-volt levels and have lifetimes in the kajillions of reps. Therefore, for this application, it’s just an engineering issue of serialisation (for the voltage) and parallelisation (for current). It’s clear that this can be done with today’s tech; the only question is how cheaply.