Looking at this paper on the cost components of coal fired power plants: http://cedm.epp.cmu.edu/files/workingpapers/Trancik-Coal_Energy_Policy.pdf
it is clear that although the capital service cost remains, and represents 50% of the delivered electrical cost, an appropriately engineered drop-in replacement E-Cat HT boiler would bring down the fuel and O&M costs dramatically. On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:13 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Two things are clear: > > 1) The E-Cat HT paper will not have a proximate effect on the academic > discourse, as it is not independently peer-reviewed and published. > > 2) The pseudo-skeptics have long-ago lost the academic discourse -- having > abandoned any participation in the peer-reviewed independently published > literature and have been completely reliant on the media and political > echo-chamber<http://newenergytimes.com/v2/audio/Beaudette-MIT-04062004.mp3> > . > > The proximate significance of this paper, therefore, is now outside of > academic discourse entirely and threatens the stability of the media and > political echo-chamber. How? Because this is a commercial device and > rational evaluation of the paper is going to motivate money. >
