MSimon wrote:Yeah, a 5 to 20 MW 100KV HV low ripple DC supply for only $1 million. Got a broker?
To quote Sgt. Odball... (Kelly's Heroes)
Your specs might be necessary for a 100 MW power producing system, but something which could prove whether break even is possible or not, needn 't require so much energy, or low ripple. If you will recall, you and I and a few other people discussed the idea of a 60 hz pulsed reactor, and if the idea is workable, we might be able to get by with something like this.
http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/all,ca ... auc=312042
If we absolutely HAVE to have DC, we can rectify it if necessary, and we could even use a voltage doubler circuit to push the voltage up to around 195K and come out with 120 hz ripple.(Per Phase. 360hz for all three) At that point we could LC filter it and build a voltage regulator circuit to clean up most of what was left.
(I haven't run the numbers on the capacitors required, but that might be the biggest hang up to this approach. )
A wise man once said ...
Science is hard. Engineering is harder. Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
In any case, it's fun speculating on various ideas that
MIGHT work, while we're waiting for the Scientists and the Government to make some progress.
David