In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Sat, 05 Mar 2005 18:23:50 -0900: Hi, [snip] >Table 1 - Current energy plant capital cost in $/W > >Gas turbine 0.5 >Wind 2.0 >Solar tower 2.5 >Nuclear 6.0 > >One MBtu is equivalent to 33.43 watts expended for a year. Multiplying the >above values by 33.43 we can thus obtain energy plant cost in $ per MBtu/yr >assuming a plant life of one year. > > >Table 2 - Current energy plant capital cost > (in $ per MBtu/yr, or $T per quad/yr) > >Gas turbine 17 >Wind 67 >Solar tower 83 >Nuclear 200 > >The above values have to be multiplied by 10^9 to obtain cost in $ per >quad/yr. So, the above numbers represent the current cost in trillions of >dollars per quad/yr energy creation capacity.
The costs started off in dollars and got multiplied by 10^9, so they are be in billions, not trillions of dollars per quad/yr generation capacity. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk All SPAM goes in the trash unread.
