My understanding is that the low price per kilowatt only applies to
the domestic e-cat which are 10kW. The e-cats in the 1MW plant use a
different reactor and are more expensive at $1500/kW.
On 13/01/12 15:46, Dr Joe Karthauser wrote:
Just because the price is so low per kilowatt doesn't mean
that you can buy it per kilowatt. I imagine that that's the
price for the big ones, and the smaller ones are more expensive.
I've been thinking
about this a little more and am starting to wonder how Rossi
is able to achieve such a low price. At $500 for 10kW,
that's way lower than any conventional boiler that I know
of. I'd image the actual process of machining and automated
assembly, of the unit can be kept quite low with the volumes
Rossi is talking about but what about the instrumentation
and control costs? I would have thought that they would be a
significant cost in the production of the unit. NI must have
come up with some smart and economical ways for performing
the monitoring and control of the device. I would also hope
that each device is tested before being packaged for
shipping which must involve some manual labour and so would
account for a significant portion of the device's production
cost. There is also the industrial design aspect. Rossi must
have come up with some sort of design for an enclosure for
the unit which must be cheap to manufacture and easy to
remove for refuelling.
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