Re: IGBT's, pulsed power (was Re: Waveguide TC)

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi,

360 MW will light a good sized city.  A 360MW generating station would put 
a good spot and the map as would the coal strip mine to run it :o))  I 
"think" Greg meant like 360kW or maybe only 360W  ;-))

Cheers,

         Terry



At 02:24 PM 12/15/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Keep in mind, most facilities using very high powered equipment like this
>have additional generators on site
>to convert loss energy (such as heat etc...) back into electricity which
>they then sell back to the power company.
>
>Dan
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> > 360 MW is still a heap o' juice, though... at $0.10/kWh, it's going to
>cost
> > $36000 per hour.. Presumably they don't plan to run the thing when spot
> > rates are high...
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> > Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 9:06 AM
> > Subject: Re: IGBT's, pulsed power (was Re: Waveguide TC)
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> >  > Original poster: "Greg Leyh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> > <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
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> >  > Sorry, I didn't denote that the 75MW is the *peak* output
> >  > rating of the klystron.
> >  > The duty factor here is *extremely* low -- the total site
> >  > power should average less than 360MW.
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> >  > >Original poster: "W.R. Langston <blangsto-at-iwvisp-dot-com>
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> >  > >"8000 (or so) 75 MW..." plus significant losses I presume; so, whose
>what
> >  > >is powering this set up?
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> >  > >>SLAC is engaged in the machine design of many subsystems
> >  > >>for the Next Linear Collider, including the pulsed power
> >  > >>modulators that will feed the 8000 or so 75MW x-band klystrons.
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