Reply To: Repowering the electric utility industry

[mchargue]

JimmyT wrote: One easy way to get 60 Hz is to drop the pulse rate to 180 Hz (if possible, we really don’t know yet do we?) and use one pulse for each of the three phases of conventional 60Hz current. As far as alternative energy goes, it will be abandoned rather quickly except for specialized applications like mountain top cell towers or freeway signs with no access to power lines.

Where are you electrical engineers?

So far as I understand it, the power that comes from the reactor will be pulsed DC. That can then be accumulated, and converted into AC for the grid.

Think of it as a hand-cranked pump filling up a bucket. Power splashes out into the bucket each time you crank the handle. From the bucket, you pull power out into a converter for the rest of the grid. So, the level in the bucket rises & falls, but keeps some average level required by the converter. So long as the reactor can supply enough power to keep that average, all is good.