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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: DC to AC on large scale???
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:40:38 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- In article <C1HG4I.EG4@ms.uky.edu> msunde01@mik.uky.edu writes:
- >
- >Wouldn't using motors and generators cause a big drop in efficiency?? It
- >seems to me that a lot of power would be wasted in converting the
- >electricity to mechanical power and back . . .. But then I suppose that's
- >exactly what gave somebody(-ies) the idea of doing it with silicon ??
-
- Yes, that's why M-G sets aren't too popular anymore. You can get up to
- eighty percent efficiency at peak load, but the problem is that with a load
- that varies considerably, a set designed to handle the peak load will be
- extremely inefficient when less power is required.
- --scott
-