Jed Rothwell wrote:
> > Seriously folks! If Estacado Energy Services, Inc. begins generating 250 > MW of electricity, Just one minor point -- As far as I can tell from the article, the 250 MW number doesn't reflect anyone's plans for actually doing anything. Rather, it's the power limit in the license agreement. I.e, Estacado is licensed to use BLP technology to generate UP TO 250 MW of power. If they wanted to build a larger plant than that they would need to have BLP cut them a new license. Read it carefully: "Estacado may produce gross thermal power up to a maximum continuous capacity of 250 MW ..." That word "may" is not speculation as to what they might do; rather, it's a statement of what they have permission to do. The significance, if any, of the 250 MW number is rather unclear without knowing how much they actually had to pay for the license -- and whether they could have saved a significant amount of the fee by opting for a lower power cap in the license. For all we know they negotiated a license fee and then BLP asked to have a power cap put on it just in case it turns into a runaway smash success and Estacado decides to build a *chain* of full size generating stations with the technology. With such a negotiating scenario the 250 MW number could be almost entirely arbitrary -- it is, perhaps, most reasonably viewed as a single-site license for one power plant.
