Howdy Terry,
Some local power is produced by gas turbines and is both expensive to
produce and costly to maintain. Have a friend, ex GE guy that does some of
the service work.He was born in a town near Horace. Looking down the road it
appears the small packaged nuke units will replace the gas turbines big
time. I also have a friend that rebuilds gas turbines in Houston.. clock is
ticking.
Richard
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Horace Heffner <hheff...@mtaonline.net>
wrote:
Yes, and the price tag on all of them is incredible.
Indeed. I don't know what you pay per kWh; but, it's only about ten
cents here. If you can only expect 2000 kWh per year, the $200 in
cost reduction results in a simple payback of 50 years. You gotta be
awfully green-minded to buy into that one.
The electronics are expensive if grid connection or battery storage
are involved. Your idea of a simple resistive heater is the best
deal. I know from the Toshiba Nuke article some people in the Yukon
are paying 47 cents per kWh which brings the payback to a reasonable
10 years.
Terry