I spoke over my solar house stating the great savings for a family/home, to have independent solar power supply w/power storage. Off grid power.

Today’s influencials are placing your savings and my idea at taking the savings and giving them to a seperate
indemnity.
M.edward Johnson(im not insane)

CRF is a shortcut to Levelized Cost of Energy; obviously the value depends on the interest rate and length of the loan.

Sanity check: FPL’s new reactors at Turkey Point are estimated to cost about $18 billion (including financing and all the trimmings) and produce 2 GW on average.

If $476 million / 18 MW = 26 $/W is cheap,

then $18 billion / 2 GW = 9 $/W is dirt cheap.

As for retail solar, is that after federal and state tax credits, and with net metering?

CRF is a shortcut to Levelized Cost of Energy; obviously the value depends on the interest rate and length of the loan.

Sanity check: FPL’s new reactors at Turkey Point are estimated to cost about $18 billion (including financing and all the trimmings) and produce 2 GW on average.

If $476 million / 18 MW = 26 $/W is cheap,

then $18 billion / 2 GW = 9 $/W is dirt cheap.

As for retail solar, is that after federal and state tax credits, and with net metering?

What part of this is cheap? $476 million to produce an average of 18 MW means about 40¢/kW·h.

What part of this is cheap? $476 million to produce an average of 18 MW means about 40¢/kW·h.

Great combo – the solar could be embedded right into those huge plastic sheets that cover the landfill to trap the methane for energy. Would need to be thinfilm, of course – flexible solar, like Konarka makes for the military. Even though thin-film needs more space… that s just what the landfill capture has!

Tom, you should patent this quick!

Great combo – the solar could be embedded right into those huge plastic sheets that cover the landfill to trap the methane for energy. Would need to be thinfilm, of course – flexible solar, like Konarka makes for the military. Even though thin-film needs more space… that s just what the landfill capture has!

Tom, you should patent this quick!

I say “Let’s ditch solar troughs for the better, solar power tower”. No enviro/nimby problems because heliostats are post mounted (little or no grading. Molten salts storage is simply the best form of energy storage, especially since the tower concept heats it sufficiently to power a Brayton cycle (unlike troughs). Molten salt heat storage is like twenty times cheaper than batteries.

Now is the time to focus the sun (and our research) into the “best” solar. Heliostats should be robotically mass produced and they can power ten times global demand on about 10% of the deserts alone… (This is because all the heat wasted to FF generation does not have to be accounted for).

I say “Let’s ditch solar troughs for the better, solar power tower”. No enviro/nimby problems because heliostats are post mounted (little or no grading. Molten salts storage is simply the best form of energy storage, especially since the tower concept heats it sufficiently to power a Brayton cycle (unlike troughs). Molten salt heat storage is like twenty times cheaper than batteries.

Now is the time to focus the sun (and our research) into the “best” solar. Heliostats should be robotically mass produced and they can power ten times global demand on about 10% of the deserts alone… (This is because all the heat wasted to FF generation does not have to be accounted for).