On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:01 AM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:42 AM, noone noone <thesteornpa...@yahoo.com>wrote: > >> The big cost difference between E-Cat technology and conventional >> technologies will of course be the fuel cost. The fuel cost for a one >> megawatt cold fusion planet will probably be at least 1/1000 times less >> than one powered by coal or natural gas. >> > > At $5/W, clean coal's levelized capital cost plus the process costs to > clean up the effluent and sequester the CO2, exceeds its fuel cost. > Actually, this applies to conventional coal as well, although that is increasingly irrelevant given that conventional coal plants aren't being built anymore except in Asia. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#US_Department_of_Energy_estimates
