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From: ecat builder [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 8:36 PM
A few quick comments:
Hoyt: Are you sure the electric company will want unsynchronized AC?
That might make the meter run backwards, but it seems
counter-intuitive. Also, $200K/year might be today's price, but that
number should quickly approach zero. Once a small fraction of their
users have negative bills, the electricity company is going to be in
serious fiscal trouble. How will the governments keep the electric
companies in business?
The beauty of an induction motor/generator is that is is self synchronizing
and symmetrical around synchronous speed. You just run it as a motor then
spin the shaft a little faster.
The $200k/year would eventually go away, but getting that for a couple of
years seems like a pretty good investment. This is very disruptive so
we'll just see what happens, I guess.
The power company tariffs are quasi-politically set by "public utility
commisions" or "corporation commissions" so they'd be slow to change as they
have meetings, time for public input pro and con, dealing with state
legislatures etc. so they're bound to be rather slowly responding. If the
power company in Phoenix wants a rate increase it seems they come only every
few years, but I haven't really kept records, just an impression.
