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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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. >>> >> >>
