Jim,
BTW, I am in full support of what Peter Thiel is doing, funding new
scientific ventures. I even hope the technology works. I am just more
skeptical of that then LENR for the long term.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:19 AM, ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Thanks, I was a vice president. You can run all of the financial numbers
> you want but if that thing doesn't scale up based upon his "theory" they
> don't work. Along with all of those large waterspouts, tornadoes and
> hurricanes in nature there is a tremendous amount of condensing happening
> at the location of strong jet streams.
>
> His looks like a dust devil so far.
>
> Stewart
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 3, 2013, James Bowery wrote:
>
>> Erratum: "1mil/W fixed operating cost" should read "10mil/W/year fixed
>> operating cost"
>>
>> If you run these numbers with a 12% zero amortization levelization, the
>> price per kWh comes to about 5mil/kWh delivered to the grid:
>>
>> (.30dollar*.12)/W/year+.01dollar/W/year?dollar/kWh
>> ([{(0.3 * dollar) * 0.12} / watt] / year) + ([{0.01 * dollar} / watt] /
>> year) ? dollar / (kilo*Wh)
>> = 0.0052511416 dollar/kWh
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:35 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> See slide 19 of:
>>>
>>> http://vortexengine.ca/PPP/AVEtec_Business_Case.pdf
>>>
>>> Bottom line:
>>>
>>> If LENR doesn't pan out as an electrical generating system, Atmospheric
>>> Vortex Engines are the next best thing.
>>>
>>> If LENR does pan out as an electrical generating system, Atmospheric
>>> Vortex Engines are not only still hard to beat, at 300 mil/W capital cost,
>>> 0 variable operating cost and 1mil/W fixed operating cost, but they can be
>>> used with the larger centralized energy users (there will be _some_) to
>>> relatively efficiently (up to 20%) cogenerate from the waste heat.
>>>
>>
>>
