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Subject: Re: An interesting benefit to pulsed fusors
Date: Nov 18, 11:55 am
Poster: Jim Lux

On Nov 18, 11:55 am, Jim Lux wrote:

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>>Inverting 1 MV DC to AC suitable for power distribution is fairly routine these days. Power companies transmitting power long distances in the western US use DC to reduce inductive losses, then invert at the end of the run.
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>And that is *less* lossy than the inductive losses? Wow. Thanks for the info... How would a rig like that deal with the pulsed nature of the power?

Somewhat off topic, but, it's not so much inductive losses (inductors are lossless afterall) but the improvement in system stability from using a DC link. A 1000 km power line is a transmission line, and changes in power flow "ring" back and forth for hours. Traditionally, this was done with variable capacitors and inductors at the link ends to shift the phase, but with modern thyristor stacks, you can either synthesize it at the end (a short "DC link") or use DC for the whole link. The latter has some other useful benefits, as well.