I grew up supporting the grid and will fight to see it retained. However
LENR brings new business opportunities. With 45 kW of heat from a
Hyperion unit, it is possible to build a relative low cost and simple
CHP system to interface to the Hyperion unit. There is simply no
commercial reason to feed the Ac kWhs back into the grid. We do have the
opportunity to build 10 - 50 MW LENR plants as peaking generators. With
that business model, there is very rapid payback. The idea is to cherry
pick the most profitable markets for LENR systems, to develop turn key
solutions and then to make sales. As we see it, market resistance is the
lowest in domestic CHP followed by investor owned non dispatched 10+ MW
peaking plants and finally base load plants or retro fits to replace
fossil fuel powered boilers.
On 12/7/2011 5:59 PM, Alain dit le Cycliste wrote:
I agree that green energy policy (ang green everything) will be a big
source of trouble for LENR generators.
those regulation are not rational, nor efficient, by design (they are
subsidies, and dogmatic).
LENR, as it looks, is simply efficient.
as I've already discuss with you, I know an old method consisting to
habe an asynchronous generator on a grid,
or a frequency controlled synchronous generator.
today maybe electronic inverters could be more efficient, especially
if you integrate the cost to compensate phase shift of async...
so stupid "made for green energy" regulation, that force a technical
solution, will be a problem.
anyway, maybe we can turn around the stupid regulation, because LENR
don't need subsidies, don't need forced buying by grid... LENR can
sell at a price that the grid love, at a date that the grid demand.
maybe there is no need of a forced buying, if the grid can propose a
smart-grid controler, and smart price. a network of CHP could make the
grid much more stable if they behave like a gang, and not so solo.
by the way, I feel that you, aussi guy, don't love the grid. I can
undestand that in a low density zone, with expensive and unreliable
grid. same for american mid-west.
however in europe, asia, or us coast, the grid is really a value. the
only problem these days is that in europe solar and wind energy is
killing the grid stability. recently poland have said that it will
refuse to accept german solar/wind energy at some time, because it
destabilize the grid, since nuclear plant are stopped... in france we
start to have similar problem (increase of rate of breakdown), despite
the very good grid.
I really feel that LENR CHP (small and medium) can, opposite to
solar/wind, stabilize the network naturally (it produce more when
there are needs, naturaly), and on-demand (CHP can be temporarily
activated, or blocked, because heating can be delayed/maintained a
little).
collaborating with the grid can make the total price of electricity
much lower, that autonomous LENR.
on low density, expensive grid, I agree that no-grid solution can be
better, because an triple sized generator may be less expensive that a
20km 20kV line+transformer. smart local grid for "village" can also be
an intermediate solution, and with smart grid and LENR it can be much
more easy than with todays technology.
decision should be based on cost.
2011/12/6 Aussie Guy E-Cat <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
ssie FITs require the grid to be fed via a grid connect inverter
and the inverter fed by a "Renewable" energy source. I doubt LENR
would qualify. No reason to generate DC and then feed the grid and
the home from an expensive solid state inverter. Plain old simple
PM based Ac alternator delivering 50 Hz at 240 Vac will do nicely.
