In the Philippines, Renewables is "Must Take", The distribution company must take everything the renewable power plant can generate. So, I guess that can be considered baseload.
Also, wave is not as intermittent as wind and solar. It is very much predictable to within a few days. 48 hour wave forecasts for swells are very accurate to within a few hours, sometimes up to 5 days. When a storm is approaching land fall from the Pacific, this period could last for 2 or more weeks. Currently, I am watching swell patterns that have remained predictable and consistent for over 3 weeks now. We've had a chain of 1 storm followed by 2 tropical drepressions plus another tropical depression predicted to occur in a few days.. The waves and swells have been excellent. If I had my system deployed, I would have made a killing. On a scale of intermittency, I would consider wind, solar, wave, hydro and biomass on this order. Regarding being competitive, is my figure competitive with LENR, with Rossi's hotcat, and more importantly with BLP's suncell. I consider suncell to be a bigger threat because of its portability and its minimal capex. Rossi's system requires an ecosystem of steam equipment and structures, hence could be expensive in capex. Suncell is just a small generator that can be ganged up and hence can be deployed quickly and rather inexpensively. Is my design competitive with your Air Vortex tower generator? Jojo ----- Original Message ----- From: James Bowery To: vortex-l Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2014 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Wave Powered Design for less than $200/kw It is not in the same market as coal. Coal is baseload. But in terms of other intermittent renewables, yes it is competitive if your figures are correct. On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Jojo Iznart <[email protected]> wrote: 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
