Re: Electric Power Plant Types--Partial Comparison

"Paul E. Bennett" <peb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ed Earl Ross wrote:
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>> Nuclear $300M for 200MW
>> Cleaner Coal $396M for 200MW
>> Australia Solar Tower $670M for 200MW
>> Portugal PV $1000M for 200MW
>> OTEC $1000M for 200MW
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> Why pick 200MW as the standard power station size for your study. New
> Nuclear/Coal/Oil Builds will usually be in the order of 1GW to 2GW per
> plant and often 2 such plants on the same site. It does not seem to make
> economic sense to build smaller units.

An interesting conjecture: modular nuclear power plants (components of
rail-car size manufactured in factories and shipped to site) may make
smaller capacities economical, economies of scale for site-built plants
being off-set by economies of mass production.

-dl


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