In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:48:24 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Multiple reports exist of varying power output from the device. Such >variability wouldn't be acceptable in a commercial device. By ganging a >hundred units together, the variability tends to average out resulting in a >much smoother output. > >Hi Robin, > >Well yes, that's a decent reason ... but if it were only for the purpose of >'smoothing,' isn't having 100 a bit of overkill? 3 would have been fine for >that purpose. There must be more to it.
I think the magic number of 1 MW (which is roughly the geometric mean between household size and utility size) probably also plays a role. ;) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
