Hello folks, I would like your feedback on something. I am working on a wave powered power plant design that I think I can deploy for less than $200/kw. At this cost, is it competitive with other power sources. I read from wiki and other sources than Geothermal and Hydro power sources can be deployed for less than $300/kw but I am not sure how accurate this is and what exactly is included in that figure. And for that matter, is my figure competitive with coal?
My design consists of deploying wave powered small pumps. Each pump cost less than $15.. I plan to deploy around 10,800 such pumps to generate between 1.4MW to 5MW of electricity depending on the intensity of the waves. Here in the Philippine East coast, we get swell heights of 0.8m to 4m with period of 7-10 seconds. With a design life of 10 years, I figured that I would be able to generate electricity at $0.0019/kwh. You read that right, not 19 cents, but 1/5 of 1 cent per kwh. At this level of cost, I believe this is lower than even Rossi's Hotcat or BLP's suncell, am I correct? With operating cost added, I think I can generate electricty for around $0.005/kwh. At these price and cost levels, I can be very competitive with all currently known electricity sources, including hydro and geothermal and including other wave powered designs. My main concern is how competitive I can be when LENR hits the market. As of today, I only see 2 viable technologies that could possibly hit the market in the short term, Rossi's hotcat and Suncell. I read that the projected cost for Rossi's is 1 cent/kwh and for BLP is about $0.03/kwh. Does anybody have more accurate forcast figures for these two technologies. If this is accurate, I will be very very competitive. Give me your thoughts on how competitive I can be in the new LENR environment. Jojo
